For many companies - perhaps smaller ones, or those who are just starting out in ethical trade - the ideal of full integration between ethics and core business practices may seem overwhelming. Here are a few tips to get you started.

ETI has helped bridge a big gap between its member trade unions and companies. But there is still a long way to go before ETI company-union collaboration becomes the norm, rather than the exception.

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?

"Our members are really pleased they're going to be getting behind a big piece of work".

"Sunita told me that she works with three or four other women, clearing about 40 tonnes a day of waste stone rubble between them by hand and on their heads."

Ergon's Stuart Bell highlights new initiatives to push workers' wages above legal minima

"Effective and credible ethical trade strategies can help generate not just more jobs at any cost, but better jobs, more stable jobs, with better wages, that will enable millions of poor and vulnerable people to lift themselves out of poverty."

"For the NHS, ethical sourcing should be just as much about protecting the people who make its equipment as it is about the patients who are treated with it."

"The beauty of a good operational or management control is that it multi-tasks, taking care of several risk sources at the same time."

Some key lessons from ETI's Decent Work Project on helping build constructive dialogue between workers and managers in China.

"More than one hundred thousand workers are killed every year at work in India. That's the equivalent of a Bhopal disaster every month." An interview with Stirling Smith.

ActionAid has published a report highlighting the payment of poverty wages, unreasonable hours and abuse of clothing workers in Bangladesh.