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 demand we do something about it. First, George Clooney is the "brand ambassador" for...
supply chains
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.
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 dozens.
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 prioritized it or even mentioned it, and your companies have actively fought against any accountability,...
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.
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.
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 on a tenure clock timeframe and decide I...
Half of the workforce of the artisanal mining sector is comprised of children. Without viable economic alternatives, most children must join their parents in rudimentary mining.
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.
Scott Walker loves him some Foxconn. So much he basically handed over his entire state to it. And who wouldn't love a company that has to put up suicide nets to stop its workers from throwing themselves off buildings instead of working there? Not to...
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.
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.