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
This Amazon story says everything about power in America and the world: Amazon.com Inc. has agreed to tighten quality control standards on its marketplace following an investigation that determined do
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 want to take you back, perhaps in the Wayback Machine, to the lost age of 2013. If we can open the creaky vaults of our memories, we might recall that 1,138 workers died to make your clothes and clo
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
When I read stories about the exploitation of children in global agribusiness, I get furious because they never get to root causes. This story about the widespread use of child labor on Indonesian pal
The inability to think the below the surface sometimes really amazes me, but no more than in this article arguing that automation will solve the problem of modern slavery. Modern-day slavery has come
At least one person investigating labor conditions at the Chinese sweatshops for the Ivanka Trump brand has been detained by the state. A labor activist who had been working undercover at a Chinese fa