The AFL-CIO’s Solidarity Center has a report out about forced labor from Turkmenistan in the cotton supply chains. It’s a pretty bloody awful story. Cotton bound for global markets from Tu
Pandemic or not, the global apparel industry is going to make sure that it is the workers making our clothing that is going to suffer the most. For nearly a year, A-ya spent up to 10 hours a day at Tr
While the nation only cares about the presidential election, the routine daily horrors of the world continue without abatement and it’s high time we remember that these things are happening and
I was happy to be quoted in this excellent and important American Prospect piece on sexual harassment in trucking. Not long after Claudia Lopez began her career in trucking, a male colleague began to
Over half a decade has passed since the Rana Plaza sweatshop collapsed and 1,138 workers were killed making your clothes. Since you haven’t done anything about it, your politicians haven’t
Supply chains exist to maximize profit for western corporations. The easiest ways to increase profit is to lower labor costs and create environmental hazards. Supply chains do this by outsourcing all
I am, of course, obsessed with issues of exploitation of labor and nature in our supply chains. After all, I am the extremely rare academic to be in the middle of turning my dissertation into a book o
This is an interesting report on attempts to ensure cobalt production in the Congo is not mined by children. Sources close to a pilot scheme expected to be launched this year say the aim is eventually