Abi Rushton

Position

Director, Ethical Expert

Abi is Founder and Director of Ethical Expert Ltd, an ethical trade and sustainable supply chain consultancy which believes in practical and commercially based approaches to improving products and conditions across international supply chains. She has 20 years' experience across manufacturing, retail and international development leadership roles, latterly working for the UK's top two retailers in CSR/sustainability roles. She also sits on the board of the Ethical Fashion Forum.

Blog posts from this author

Worker participation boosts business

20 July 2012

Worker participation - how to unleash potential and increase dialogue while driving business improvements.

Child labour - is the global recession squeezing childhood?

8 August 2011

As the economic ‘recovery' in the West falters, are we prepared to sacrifice our children's education and learning to bring more money into our households to try to maintain our consumerist lifestyles?

Re-imagining the minimum wage

9 May 2011

Can Singapore's model be applied elsewhere?

Electronics - The new fast fashion?

24 February 2011

Is the electronics industry making the same blunders in addressing working conditions as the fashion industry, or learning from its mistakes?

Could China's gain become its workers' loss?

15 February 2011

Could China's economic boom and changing consumer patterns unwittingly lead to poorer conditions for its workers as domestic orders begin to fill the gaps left by exiting international firms?