RELATED INGREDIENTS
INTENTIONS
Change government behaviour
Change corporate behaviour
Change citizen behaviour
Change consumer behaviour
Change the system
Show what’s possible
TACTICS
Have a theory of change
Join with others
Find the unions
Bring managers into view
Bring politicians into view
Bring regulators into view
Hold ’em accountable
RESPONSES
Capitalism is sh*t
This is disgusting
I’m so angry
I gotta do something
These people are inspiring
IMPACTS
Governments intervene
Corporations are punished
Corporations change
EXAMPLES
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Workers’ pay & conditions improve
IN BRIEF
Although itâs not always easy to trace a line between individual examples of trade justice activism and improvements in supply chain workersâ pay and conditions, this work does make a positive difference when looked at more broadly.
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This is a placeholder impact page that, once finished, will explain this impact, illustrate it with reference to comments taken from relevant followthethings.com example pages, and will give a clickable sense of the intentions, tactics and responses that go with it.
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RECOMMENDED READINGS
HĂ©lĂšne Bohyn (2025) Omnibus Or Not, Due Diligence Is a Must: Policy Breakdown . Better Cotton 31 March (https://bettercotton.org/omnibus-or-not-due-diligence-is-a-must-policy-breakdown/ last accessed 22 April 2025`)
Alice Evans (2020) Overcoming the global despondency trap: strengthening corporate accountability in supply chains. Review of International Political Economy, 27(3), p.658-685
Genevieve LeBaron, Remi Edwards, Tom Hunt, Charline Sempéré & Penelope Kyritsis (2022) The Ineffectiveness of CSR: Understanding Garment Company Commitments to Living Wages in Global Supply Chains. New Political Economy 27(1), 99-115
Juliane Reinecke & Jimmy Donaghey (2021) Towards worker-driven supply chain governance: developing decent work through democratic worker participation. Journal of Supply Chain Management 57(2), 14â28
Erik Olin Wright (2015) How to be an anticaptalist today. Jacobin 12 February
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