Archive for February, 2012
Human Rights Abuses in the Seafood Industry
The life of a commodity never begins at the cash register. By the time it reaches a store shelf, a product has the potential to have already encountered a series of human rights breaches during the trajectory of its production. Just one glance at the range of industries featured on the Free2Work website indicates that… Read more
Ethical Valentines Day Gifts
Flowers, jewelry, and chocolate: collectively, these are the modern-day linchpin of Valentine’s Day. Yet lurking in the shadows of these industries is a myriad of highly-contentious labour issues. In order to produce larger quantities of products at a lower price, many companies knowingly or unknowingly use supply chains in which child or forced labour, poor… Read more
Adventures in App Development
In early 2011, our team set out to add a vital addition to the Free2Work application: product scanning. This addition is intended to provide our research to users when they need it most—while they shop. Before we could build this new feature, we had to answer a variety of complicated technical questions, each with a… Read more
