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eBook: Ethical Fashion
Vegans strive to lead a cruelty-free life, avoiding eating or using products that cause harm to animals. When it comes to clothes and fashion, that goal may appear even more difficult to achieve. This accessible guide explains how animal cruelty is embedded in fabric production, manufacturing, and marketing. Readers will discover how to make a personal checklist of their cruelty-free values and buy budget-friendly clothes that they can feel good about. Features include an inspirational section providing readers with numerous ideas for making their own cruelty-free garments and accessories, a sidebar on debunking topical Myths and Facts, and 10 Questions to Ask a Specialist.
eBook: Ethical consumerism
Ethical shopping and sustainable consumption (Consumerism, Carbon offsets, Ethical and responsible investment, Fairtrade, When ethics meets profits: is Fairtrade really a fair go for all? Ethical foods, Sustainable table, No sustainable population without sustainable consumption, In Buy Nothing New Month, is there such a thing as ethical consumption? Ethical consumption: from margins to mainstream, The anti-shopping movement goes mainstream). Select OPEN FILE on left of page and download PDF of the book.
eBook: Child labour
This book tackles the myths and misunderstandings surrounding child labour and explains the international labour standards and approaches aimed at eventually eliminating the exploitation of children. The book also measures global progress in reducing child exploitation, including the role of Australian companies and consumers in ensuring the goods they produce and purchase meet minimum age standards. Child labour is everyone's business.
eBook: Human Rights
Readers will evaluate whether certain countries or cultures are falling short on human rights, including the European Unions, Bangladesh, Tibet, Israel, America, and China. They will read about whether certain policies are effective or failing in places like Britain, Myanmar, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Korea. Treatment of women and children is also explored in places such as Haiti and Saudi Arabia.
eBook: Workers' Rights
Readers will examine labor regulations worldwide, in countries such as Brazil, India, Greece, and the United States. Topics covered include unions and collective bargaining, issues related to workplace discrimination in selected countries and regions such as Asia and Nigeria, and the use of migrant and slave labor.
eBook: Fair Trade and You
This insightful book teaches readers what fair trade is and how it promotes humane working conditions worldwide. Readers learn how to recognize fair trade goods while shopping and the lasting benefits that fair trade has for the economy. Readers are introduced to fair trade manufacturers of coffee, chocolate, and clothing.
eBook: Modern Slavery: a Reference Handbook
This reference work provides a thorough treatment of the evolving scope, nature, and contexts of modern slavery and a discussion of prevention and abolition efforts in an accessible format for high school and college readers.
eBook: Human Trafficking and Slavery
The global trade of trafficking men, women and children into the sex industry and labour markets has been the subject of growing public and international concern. Select OPEN FILE on left of page and download PDF of the book.
