Shopping for Good

A Boston Review Book

Going Mainstream: Dara O’Rourke Replies

Can Apple Shape Up?

Examining the global supply chains and labor practices of the high-tech industry.

The Promise of Ethical Consumption

An Ideas Matter event held at MIT on November 3, 2011

Citizen Consumer

A small percentage of consumers have already moved a portion of the market toward more sustainable practices. But the larger promise of ethical consumption remains unmet.

Fung, O’Rourke, and Sabel Reply

Stepping Up Labor Standards

Even as globalization makes us complicit in terrible abuses of workers, it opens up new possibilities for public action.

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