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November 2026
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Ethics & corporate governance10 min readCheap garment factories: keep or cut, and who decides?
For a brand owner or sourcing lead who has just received a bad audit of a subcontract factory while the workers still want the jobs. The post splits the question into four gates, reads Zwolinski, Kates and Human Rights Watch, and ends with a conditional answer.
- Ethics & corporate governance10 min read
A factory where institutions are weak: what do you owe beyond the law?
For an owner or operations director weighing a plant in a country where the labour law exists on paper but inspectors never arrive. The post reads the abstract of Hsieh (2009) and the opening chapter of Vogel (2005), then tests four guidelines on a hypothetical garment factory.