Sourcing Journal | How Blockchain Could Benefit Levi’s Worker Well-Being Initiative

Levi Strauss & Co. is building on its five-year-old worker well-being program, underpinning new efforts with blockchain in order to enhance trust and transparency and reduce the time from data collection to review and response.Last week at the World Economic Forum in Davos, a trio of stakeholders announced the program development that’s funded by an $800,000 grant awarded to blockchain consultancy ConSensys, civic think tank New America and the Sustainability and Health…

SHINE Publishes Report On A New Approach to the Well-being of Factory Workers in Global Supply Chains

We wanted to highlight our recently published paper, A New Approach to the Well-being of Factory Workers in Global Supply Chains: Evidence from Apparel Factories in Mexico, Sri Lanka, China and Cambodia, which was one of only eight selected papers chosen for publication by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in their new report Measuring The Impacts of Business on Well-being and Sustainability.  Dr. Dorota Weziak-Bialowolska, SHINE Research Associate,…

Dorota Weziak-Bialowolska of SHINE Presents at OECD World Forum on Statistics in Korea

We are thrilled to share that Dorota Weziak-Bialowolska (Ph.D.), Research Associate at SHINE presented the paper entitled A New Approach to the Well-being of Factory Workers in Global Supply Chains: Evidence from Apparel Factories in Mexico, Sri Lanka, China and Cambodia at the OECD World Forum on Statistics, Knowledge and Policy in Korea this past November. Since 2004, the OECD World Forums on Statistics, Knowledge and Policy have provided a vital space to exchange…