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RELATED INGREDIENTS<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

INTENTIONS<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Change government behaviour
Change corporate behaviour
Change citizen behaviour
Change consumer behaviour
Change the system
Show what’s possible<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TACTICS<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Have a theory of change
Join with others
Find the unions
Bring managers into view<\/a>
Bring politicians into view
Bring regulators into view
Hold ’em accountable<\/p>\n\n\n\n

RESPONSES<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Capitalism is sh*t
This is disgusting<\/a>
I’m so angry
I gotta do something
These people are inspiring<\/p>\n\n\n\n

IMPACTS<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Governments intervene
Corporations are punished
Corporations change<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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EXAMPLES<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

HANDBOOK PAGES<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Mangetout
UDITA
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Workers’ pay & conditions improve<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n

IN BRIEF<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although it\u2019s not always easy to trace a line between individual examples of trade justice activism and improvements in supply chain workers\u2019 pay and conditions, this work does make a positive difference when looked at more broadly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is a placeholder impact<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n

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RECOMMENDED READINGS<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Bohyn (2025) Omnibus Or Not, Due Diligence Is a Must: Policy Breakdown . Better Cotton <\/em>31 March (<\/em>https:\/\/bettercotton.org\/omnibus-or-not-due-diligence-is-a-must-policy-breakdown\/<\/a> last accessed 22 April 2025`)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alice Evans (2020) Overcoming the global despondency trap: strengthening corporate accountability in supply chains<\/a>. Review of International Political Economy<\/em>, 27(3), p.658-685<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Genevieve LeBaron, Remi Edwards, Tom Hunt, Charline Semp\u00e9r\u00e9 & Penelope Kyritsis (2022) The Ineffectiveness of CSR: Understanding Garment Company Commitments to Living Wages in Global Supply Chains.<\/a> New Political Economy<\/em> 27(1), 99-115<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Juliane Reinecke & Jimmy Donaghey (2021) Towards worker-driven supply chain governance: developing decent work through democratic worker participation. <\/a>Journal of Supply Chain Management<\/em> 57(2), 14\u201328<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Erik Olin Wright (2015) How to be an anticaptalist today<\/a>. Jacobin<\/em> 12 February<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Image credit<\/summary>\n

Icon: improvement (https:\/\/thenounproject.com\/icon\/improvement-7764895\/<\/a>) by Pixels Peak from Noun Project (CC BY 3.0)<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n

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SECTION: <\/strong>Responses<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

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RELATED INGREDIENTS INTENTIONS Change government behaviourChange corporate behaviourChange citizen behaviourChange consumer behaviourChange the systemShow what’s possible TACTICS Have a theory of changeJoin with othersFind the unionsBring managers into viewBring politicians into viewBring regulators into viewHold ’em accountable RESPONSES Capitalism is sh*tThis is disgustingI’m so angryI gotta do somethingThese people are inspiring IMPACTS Governments interveneCorporations are […]<\/p>\n

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