🧐 About

followthethings.com is a database of trade justice activism that aims to make ‘real’ the hidden relations between the producers & consumers of everyday things. It’s a resource designed to help activists, teachers, researchers, students and others to appreciate commodity-centred trade justice activism as a whole, and to inspire and inform new work that can have positive effects on the pay and conditions enjoyed by supply chain workers worldwide.

Ian Cook et al – Emeritus Professor of Cultural Geography at the University of Exeter in the UK – has been its ‘CEO’ since it opened in 2011 (see Ian’s university profile page here and followthethings.com’s contact page here).