Worldshop

Worldshops are often not-for-profit organizations and run by locally based volunteer networks.

However, some sources credit the first fair trade shop that had been opened in the US in 1958, selling Puerto Rican needlework.

Alternative trading organisations imported various third world goods, such as cane sugar starting in the 1960s, and still continuing today.

The Fairtrade label, which is used on fair trade products, has its roots in the 1980s worldshop movement.

The worldshops' target is to pay the producers a fair price that guarantees subsistence and positive social development.