References & Bibliography

This booklet draws significantly on the “Right Corporate Wrongs: The Final Push” lobby guide produced by the TJM & CORE in 2006 with adaptations to make clear SPEAK’s approach, values and campaign. See www.tjm.org.uk/

Also see SPEAK’s Trade Justice Campaign booklet for more information on our campaigning for trade justice and links to the Big Dress Campaign.

Useful Websites
www.speak.org.uk - The SPEAK website! Extra resources (that wouldn’t fit in this booklet!) on letter writing, lobbying MP’s, getting media coverage for events and much more. Check out the forum discussions, and ways to get plugged into the network too. Let us know what resources would help you further.

www.tjm.org.uk - The TJM homepage! Has links to all the TJM members’ websites with lots more useful information on them.

www.corporate-responsibility.org - The CORE Coalition website with useful information and resources about the campaign.

www.labourbehindthelabel.org - Labour Behind the Label is a campaign that supports garment workers' efforts worldwide to improve their working conditions. They produce really good comprehensive but accessible reports.

www.ilo.org - International Labour Organisation – many important reports on labour conditions worldwide.

Christian Aid, Tearfund and World Vision all have excellent campaign and prayer resources and in depth reports:
• www.christian-aid.org.uk/campaign
http://www.christian-aid.org.uk/campaign/corporate/index.htm
www.pressureworks.org
• www.tearfund.org/trade
http://youth.tearfund.org/lift+the+label/
• www.worldvision.org.uk

24-7, UCCF and Fusion have good prayer and student resources online:
• http://uk.24-7prayer.com
• www.UCCF.org.uk
• www.fusion.uk.com

www.peopleandplanet.org - People & Planet give good information and campaign suggestions easy to access for students.

www.maketradefair.com - Oxfam’s trade campaign site with lots of information about their campaign

www.foe.org/camps/intl/corpacct/wallstreet/index.html - Friends of the Earth have a great corporate campaign section and resources.

www.waronwant.org - War on Want produce interesting alternative company reports and first hand research.

www.actionaid.org.uk/ - ActionAid’s website has a particularly good media section, so that you can quickly find relevant news and official responses to issues of corporate accountability.

www.nosweat.org.uk/ - No Sweat is an activist, campaigning organisation, fighting sweatshops, in solidarity with workers, worldwide.

Traidcraft, CAFOD, and CRED all have excellent campaign resources and in depth reports:
• www.traidcraft.co.uk
• www.cafod.org.uk -
• www.cred.org.uk

www.wto.org - the official website of the WTO. Have a look at the ‘what is the WTO’ section for a useful introduction to how the WTO works. To contrast the information check out:
• www.wtowatch.org
• www.gatswatch.org
• www.citizen.org/trade/index.cfm

http://www.ethicaltrade.org/index.shtml - Ethical Trading Initiative website

Other useful sites to check out include:
• www.oneworld.org
• www.thirdworldnetwork.org

Good Books
For more information about trade and related issues try reading…
• Trade for Life by Mark Curtis, published by Christian Aid provides a good introduction to the issues surrounding trade justice.
• No Logo by Naomi Klein and Captive State by George Monbiot, which both look at the influence of multinational corporations.
• Behind the Scenes at the WTO by Fatoumata Jawara and Aileen Kwa, Rethinking Globalization by Martin Khor and Free Trade by Graham Dunkley are all published by Zed Books (zedbooks.co.uk) and are worth reading.
• The Globalisation Myth by Alan Shipman and Globalization and its discontents by Joseph Stiglitz are both books which explore the wider issue of globalisation and neo-liberalism.
• Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger by Ronald Sider, The Soul of Politics by Jim Wallis, You Can Make A Difference by Tony Campolo and The Sins of the Fathers by Roger Mitchell and Brian Mills, all explain why Christians should engage in campaigning.
• Lift the Label, the hidden cost of our lifestyle by David Westlake and Esther Stansfield, for a Christian challenge to informed consumerism and L is for Lifestyle by Ruth Valerio (IVP) has an overview of ethical lifestyle issues from a Biblical perspective. It's an easy to read thin paperback you can dip into, but tackles the issues in a thought provoking way.
• Field Guide to the Global Economy, Anderson, S.; Cavanagh, J.

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