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Revealing Clothing, ETAG's second Transparency Report Card, picks up where Coming Clean on the Clothes We Wear left off. It assesses and compares public reporting on labour standards compliance by 30 top apparel retailers and brands selling clothes in the Canadian market, including Levi Strauss, Nike, adidas, H&M, Mountain Equipment Co-op, Roots, La Senza, Reitmans and 22 others. This year's report also discusses worker involvement, purchasing practices and sustainable compliance.
This excellent reader by SOMO (Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations) profiles five major US based-multinationals that source garment and apparel products from companies on the African continent. It includes information on the labels, corporate sourcing strategy and recent labour rights violations.
Coming Clean on the Clothes We Wear assesses and compares 25 retailers and brands based on the information they provide to the public on their efforts to address labour rights issues in their global supply chains.
In this brief but dense publication, Utting takes a critical look at the potential and limitations of voluntary approaches to business regulation. Rather than dismissing all forms of voluntary regulation as "simply part of a broader trend of ‘deregulation' promoted by neoliberalism," Utting views them as "part of a more complex process of ‘re-regulation'...."
This 2004 paper surveys various Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives on how they determine a living wage for apparel workers, and recommends clauses on wages to include in codes of conduct.
In this pamphlet, the Ethical Trading Action Group (ETAG) offers measures that interested companies taken take to better assess and verify compliance with labour standards in their supply chains, and to eliminate abuses where and when they arise. PDF Format
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