The anti-sweatshop crusader left his mark on the industry, paving the way for the modern push for corporate purpose.
and keeping the pressure on under a new moniker, The Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights, and more.
Now brands acknowledge that responsibility, have established codes of conduct and work with third-party monitoring groups. Karp spent 22 years as a high-level executive at Liz Claiborne Inc., which has an enduring reputation as a socially minded company, but did take some heat from Kernaghan early on.
“He was so damned efficient at telling the story, by bringing people forward,” she said. “He pulled at people’s sense of fairness.” Elizabeth Cline, apparel and labor rights activist and director of advocacy and policy at Remake, said: “I was a college student when the anti-sweatshop movement emerged in the late ’90s. Charles Kernaghan was in the middle of that and leading all that. If you were a young activist at the time, I was a teenager, he was a legend, an icon, larger than life.
Kernaghan’s sister, Maryellen Kernaghan, cites his impact on college students — who rallied against the use of sweatshops to make apparel sold by their schools — as a key part of his legacy.
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