child labor

Starbucks is Ruining Coffee

Vera Pavlovich, Loyola University Maryland

From burning beans to driving up prices, Starbucks has built a business around ruining the experience of craft coffee.…

March 8, 2024

An exchange of commerce is depicted at the center of a noxious cloud -- a hand offering a credit card for a pair of heels against a purple background of twisting lines. The image towers over rows red desks, dark figures sitting at them, ominously overshadowed by the product they labored over for someone else.

Dutch Colonialism in Southeast Asia was Always a Humanitarian Crisis

Vera Pavlovich, Loyola University Maryland

Colonialism is not a thing of the past; rather, its facets have evolved into industries like fast fashion.…

March 1, 2024

Illustration of Radcliffe in many roles, including Miracle Workers

It’s a Miracle That ‘Miracle Workers’ Works as Well as It Does

L.R. Staples, Sarah Lawrence College

After being the boy who lived, Daniel Radcliffe has had a bizarre acting career, to say the least, and his role in the American anthology series is no exception.…

August 30, 2021

In an article about fast fashion company Shein, an illustration of factory workers sewing clothes

Shining a Light on Shein’s Unethical Labor Practices

Reem Farhat, Fordham University

Their recent release of offensive products has consumers outraged, but the company's fast fashion practices and sweatshops hurt much more than feelings.…

July 23, 2020