Fashioning an Ethical Industry, a project of Labour Behind the Label
Fashioning an Ethical Industry (FEI) is an innovative education project of Labour Behind the Label, which works
to support the efforts of garment workers around the world to defend their rights. FEI works with educators
and students of fashion related courses in the UK to give an overview of how the fashion industry positively and
negatively impacts on working conditions in garment manufacture; and to inspire students - as the next generation
of industry players - to raise standards for garment workers in the fashion industry of the future.
This Handbook is just one small part of the work that we do. FEI also runs training for educators, as well as
student workshops. We organise high profile conferences and networking opportunities for educators and
students. We also support educators looking to integrate issues relating to working conditions in garment
manufacture into their teaching, and provide teaching resources. For more information, please see
http://fashioninganethicalindustry.org/faq/#
Fashioning an Ethical Industry is part of a consortium of organisations in Austria, The Netherlands, Poland and the
UK who are funded by the European Union to work with fashion colleges.
To join the Fashioning an Ethical Industry mailing list please visit
http://fashioninganethicalindustry.org/mailinglist/
A: 10 -12 Picton Street, Bristol, BS6 5QA, UK
T: +44 (0) 117 944 1700
E: [email protected]
W: http://www.fashioninganethicalindustry.org
Educators for Socially Responsible Apparel Business
Educators for Socially Responsible Apparel Business (ESRAB) is an international consortium of faculty and graduate
students whose teaching, research and services focus on social responsibility and sustainability. ESRAB is a means
for faculty to reach out to colleagues with similar interests, for empowering faculty as scholars, for creating
visibility for our scholarship on campus and beyond, and for contributing solutions to society’s problems stemming
from the apparel business.
Major areas of focus include: a) labour standards and working conditions, b) environmental sustainability,
c) body image and disordered eating, and d) consumer issues and materialism.
ESRAB was founded in 1999 by a small group of faculty in the United States. ESRAB now has over 80 members
from 32 states in the United States and 7 foreign countries. Most members are educators at colleges and
universities with programs in apparel design and fashion merchandising, thus we are educating the apparel
industry’s future leadership.
ESRAB has been especially effective in introducing issues of social responsibility to others in the profession and
identifying best practices for teaching about those issues. We have hosted numerous special topic sessions at
professional conferences. Annual meetings provide members with an opportunity to share their work and network
with others for development of new research and educational projects. Two special issues of the Clothing and
Textiles Research Journal focusing on social responsibility have been published with ESRAB members serving as
guest editors.
To join Educators for Socially Responsible Apparel Business (ESRAB), please contact Dr. Marsha Dickson, President.
A: University of Delaware, Department of Fashion & Apparel Studies, 211 Alison West, Newark, DE 19716, USA
T: +1 302-831-4475
E: [email protected]
W: http://www.huec.lsu.edu/esrab/