
RELATED INGREDIENTS
INTENTIONS
Show capitalist evils
Change industry minds
Change corporate behaviour
Show what’s possible
TACTICS
Target the right brand
Hold ’em accountable
Include emotion
Show both sides
Find a character
Overlap scenes
Juxtapose extremes
Use myths & legends
Go to court!
Show social justice
Show how to win
Create a character
Make the hidden visible
Lie to tell the truth
Bring politicians into view
Bring regulators into view
RESPONSES
Capitalism is sh*t
I’m so angry
This is disgusting
Creeperific
Silence your critics
Who’s responsible?
Guilty as charged
That brand deserves credit
IMPACTS
Corporations change
Activism is inspired
Workers pay & conditions improve
Can’t tell
EXAMPLES
HANDBOOK PAGES
Bananas!*
Big boys gone bananas!*
Employee visualisation appendage
Girl model
Mangetout
The true cost
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FOLLOWTHETHINGS.COM PAGES
Bring managers into view
IN BRIEF
So much trade justice activism puts exploited workers centre stage, often as victims or Davids vs. unseen Goliaths. So include / focus on Goliaths, their responsibilities & power to change things.
What’s this page?
This is a placeholder tactic page that, once finished, will explain this tactic, illustrate it with reference to comments taken from relevant followthethings.com example pages, and will give a clickable sense of the intentions, responses and impacts that go with it.
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RECOMMENDED READINGS
Ian Cook et al (2018). Inviting construction: Primark, Rana Plaza and political LEGO. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 43(3), 477-495
Susanne Freidberg (2004) The ethical complex of corporate food power. Environment and planning D: society and space 22(4), 513-531
Louise Owen (2011) ‘Identity correction’: the Yes Men and acts of discursive ‘leverage’. Performance research 16(2), 28-36
Wolfgang Natter & John Paul Jones III (1993) Pets or meat: class, ideology & space in Roger & Me. Antipode 25(2), 140-158
Image credit
Icon: manager (https://thenounproject.com/icon/manager-7545408/) by muhammad rokhis muktafa from Noun Project (CC BY 3.0)
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by Ian Cook (July 2025)