Free2Work - Fashion Company Profile
Free2Work was the consumer-facing grading project launched in 2011 by the Not For Sale campaign with the International Labor Rights Forum - an app and website that graded brands from A to F on how they addressed forced and child labor in their supply chains, so shoppers could check a product's story before buying it.
Company Snapshot
- Status
- Historical project - Free2Work was launched by the Not For Sale campaign in 2011 as a consumer app and website grading brands on forced and child labor; no current standalone Free2Work service could be verified for this update, and its grading methodology was adopted by Baptist World Aid Australia, which has published the Ethical Fashion Report since 2013
- Type
- Nonprofit project of Not For Sale, supported by the International Labor Rights Forum
- Base
- United States
- Launched
- 2011
Company Profile
No shop box and no official-site button: no current standalone Free2Work service could be verified for this update, and the grades below belong to their period - above all the 2012 apparel industry report kept in full on the history page. The project's grading methodology lives on in Baptist World Aid Australia's Ethical Fashion Report, published since 2013. Its letter-mate, the Fair Labor Association, works the same problem from the factory-audit side and is filed separately.
The grading system is the profile's core fact. Free2Work conducts extensive research before assigning grades on a scale of A to F to each brand, looking at company efforts in four main categories - stated in the introduction as policies, monitoring, transparency, and worker rights, and in the report text as Policies, Traceability & Transparency, Monitoring & Training, and Worker Rights. Grades are an indication of the extent to which companies have traced their suppliers and established management systems throughout their supply chains; if used together, these systems can theoretically prevent child and forced labor. The filing is careful about the limit: outside of a few metrics, Free2Work can only gather information on management systems, not on the working conditions they are designed to ameliorate, because the overwhelming majority of companies are not transparent with working condition information.
Free2Work History
The earlier record for this company - its history, past brand line-ups, figures and photographs from the periods described - is kept on a separate page for historical reference.
Free2Work History & Historical Profile →Common Questions
What did Free2Work do?
It gave consumers information on how products relate to modern-day human rights issues, grading brands on their efforts to address forced and child labor in their supply chains.
How were Free2Work grades assigned?
After extensive research, brands received grades on a scale of A to F across four categories: policies, traceability & transparency, monitoring & training, and worker rights.
Who created Free2Work?
Free2Work was a project created by Not For Sale and supported by the International Labor Rights Forum; it launched in 2011, and its grading methodology was later adopted by Baptist World Aid Australia for its Ethical Fashion Report.
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