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Dara O’Rourke

Dara O’Rourke is Co-Founder of GoodGuide and Associate Professor of Environmental and Labor Policy at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Class & Inequality

Shopping for Good

Dara O’Rourke, the activist-scholar who first broke the news about Nike’s sweatshops in the 1990s, considers the promise of ethical consumption—the idea that individuals, voting with their wallets, can promote better labor conditions and environmental outcomes globally.

Dara O’Rourke

Class & Inequality, Global Justice

Can Apple Shape Up?

BR Web Editor David Johnson spoke to GoodGuide founder and Berkeley professor Dara O’Rourke about what the revelations mean for Apple and for consumers concerned about the ethics of what they buy.

Dara O’Rourke, David V. Johnson

Forum Response

Going Mainstream: Dara O'Rourke Replies

Drawing on their years of deep engagement with these issues, the respondents present very

Dara O’Rourke

Class & Inequality, Podcast

The Promise of Ethical Consumption

“Buy local,” “buy green,” “buy organic” . . . we cannot buy anything without considering its moral implications. How has consumption become suffused with right and wrong? How effective has the ethical-consumption movement been in changing market behavior?

Dara O’Rourke, Scott Nova, Richard Locke, Jens Hainmueller

Forum

Citizen Consumer

A small percentage of consumers have already moved a portion of the market toward more ethical and sustainable practices. But the larger promise of ethical consumption remains unmet: to empower consumers to express their values—whatever they are—in the marketplace.

Dara O’Rourke

Forum

Stepping Up Labor Standards

Even as globalization makes us complicit in terrible abuses of workers, it opens up new possibilities for public action. Corporations can improve workplace conditions through the same sophisticated management strategies that make them champions of the current globalization in first place.

Archon Fung, Dara O’Rourke, Charles Sabel

Forum Response

Fung, O'Rourke, and Sabel Reply

Ratcheting Labor Standards (RLS) is a proposal about how to achieve worker rights. It relies on

Archon Fung, Dara O’Rourke, Charles Sabel

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