Ethical trade - the first decade

Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGHQV19mCP8&feature=related

Ethical trading initiative:
a ground-breaking alliance of companies, trade unions and voluntary organisations. We work in partnership to improve the working lives of people across the globe who make or grow consumer goods - everything from tea to T-shirts, from flowers to footballs.
http://www.ethicaltrade.org/

Panorama - supermarkets - what price cheap food?

The Big Four supermarkets are expanding at an unprecedented rate. It's being dubbed the new "space race", with Tesco, Sainsbury's, Asda and Morrison's fighting for dominance on high streets and shopping malls across the UK. But how can they keep on expanding, and slashing our food prices, when we're in the middle of a global downturn?

In a Panorama Special, reporter Paul Kenyon looks behind the cellophane wrappers and the "Buy-one-get-one-frees" to examine the true cost of our cheap food. He visits the mega-farms coming our way from the United States, with cows being kept indoors and milked on giant "dairy-go-rounds", and pigs housed in "sty-scrapers". He also takes a look at space-age greenhouses where fruit grows without soil.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00wyh2f

Taking Liberties: the story behind the UK high streets

The Story Behind M&S, Debenhams, Next. The struggle for a decent life for garment workers in India goes far deeper than the problem of poverty wages, a new report by Labour Behind the Label and War on Want reveals.

http://www.labourbehindthelabel.org/

Tesco's Corporate social responsibility

Read their (amusing) CSR:
http://cr2010.tescoplc.com/chief-executives-introduction.aspx

An interview with Tesco corporate and legal affairs director:
http://www.tescoplc.com/plc/media/tesco_cr/

Some more propoganda:
http://www.tesco.com/talkingtesco/

Tescopoly website:
http://www.tescopoly.org

Anita Roddick questions CSR

http://www.btplc.com/Responsiblebusiness/Ourstory/Interactivegames/BetterBusinessDilemmas/index.htm

Presentations - corporate social responsibility

http://www.tutor2u.net/business/presentations/strategy/csr/default.html

Economist report on CSR

Corporate social responsibility, once a do-gooding sideshow, is now seen as mainstream. But as yet too few companies are doing it well.
http://www.economist.com/specialreports/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10491077

Practical advice on CSR from Business Link

Your business doesn't exist in isolation, simply as a way of making money. Your employees depend on your business. Customers, suppliers and the local community are all affected by you and what you do. Your products, and the way you make them, have an impact on the environment.
http://www.businesslink.gov.uk/bdotg/action/layer?topicId=1075408468

Starbucks' views on CSR

http://www.starbucks.com/aboutus/csr.asp

The Government's view on CSR

The Government sees CR as the business contribution to our sustainable development goals. Essentially it is about how business takes account of its economic, social and environmental impacts in the way it operates – maximising the benefits and minimising the downsides.
http://www.berr.gov.uk/whatwedo/sectors/sustainability/corp-responsibility/page45192.html/

Wikipedia article on CSR

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_social_responsibility

Notes on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

http://tutor2u.net/business/strategy/corporate-social-responsibility-introduction.html

Does CSR take a back seat during a recession?

On Tuesday 3 February, Stefan Stern commented in the Financial Times that “now the recession’s here we can forget all that nonsense about corporate social responsibility (CSR) and get back to trying to make some money”.
http://www.bitc.org.uk/media_centre/comment/stephen_howard.html

Notes on Corporate social responsibility - BITC

A brief look at Business in the Community and their take on corporate social responsibility
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