Sustainability—or a lack of it—has punctuated the apparel industry’s most notable moments over the last few decades. They include Nike’s sweatshop scandal in 1991, Patagonia’s public commitment to recycled polyester in 1992 and organic cotton in 1996, Levi’s 2010...
Ethical apparel brands committed to human rights This month on social media and the Erb Perspective Blog, the Erb Institute is focusing on human rights and human development. Human rights are rights inherent to all human beings, whatever our nationality, place of...
Sean Ansett will be visiting campus and holding a career and discussion focused student workshop on November 17, 2016. Sean is CSO of Fairphone, a Netherlands-based start-up bent on showing the industry that a cell phone can indeed be “conflict free”—in terms of...
My previous post – “How a Few Offenders Create Industry-Wide Reputational Issues: ‘The Reputation Commons Problem’” – focused on how the collapse of Rana Plaza created a reputation commons problem for the apparel industry. In review, a Reputation Commons Problem...