Online Resources

Online, find resources, stories, and links for economic justice initiatives of the Unitarian Universalist Association.

The Christian Science Monitor website offers the original version of this workshop’s story, Follow Your Labels, online, where you can also watch a video interview (YouTube) (16:20) with author Kelsey Timmerman about his research, beginning with a trip to Honduras to pursue this story.

The International Labour Organization published an extensive and informative 2014 report, “Wages and Working Hours in the Textiles, Clothing, Leather and Footwear Industries (PDF, 42 pages),” which is helpful in raising awareness.

Books

Elizabeth L. Kline, Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion (Penguin Portfolio, 2012).

Regan, Margaret, Detained and Deported: Stories of Immigrant Families Under Fire by Margaret Regan is now in paperback and available at inSpirit: UU Book and Gift Shop. (Beacon, 2016)

Ellen Ruppel Shell, Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture (Penguin, 2010). View a video book trailer (YouTube) (1:06).