Aren't workers happy to have jobs in apparel, toy and electronics factories and on plantations? After all, don't these companies provide lots of jobs, especially in developing countries?

ITGLWF/InditITGLWF/Inditex Professor of Ethical Fashion Doug Miller's lecture from last year's Maquila Solidarity Network's ethical fashion week is now available for download in PDF format. Entitled "Beauty & the Beast," the lecture looks at the back-story of environmental and human rights issues (the Beast) behind the fashion industry (Beauty).

In Codes Memo #22, MSN investigates whether Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) reporting is measuring the right things, asking how stakeholders can assess whether a company's business practices bear any relation to its CSR principles and objectives.