Table of Contents
41 relations: Binary opposition, Blog, Business ethics, Campaign finance, Community development, Consumer organization, Corporate social responsibility, Democratic Party (United States), Discrimination, Domestic partnership, Donation, Ecosystem, Employee benefits, Employment, Environmental Working Group, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Equal opportunity, Executive officer, Greenpeace, Human rights, Institute for Women's Policy Research, Internet forum, Labour economics, Level of measurement, Multiculturalism, National Labor Relations Board, Natural environment, Political action committee, Product liability, Progressivism in the United States, Red states and blue states, Republican Party (United States), Resource recovery, SA8000, Subsidiary, Sustainability, Sweatshop, Trade union, Union busting, United for a Fair Economy, United States.
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Binary opposition
A binary opposition (also binary system) is a pair of related terms or concepts that are opposite in meaning.
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Blog
A blog (a truncation of "weblog") is an informational website consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries (posts).
Business ethics
Business ethics (also known as corporate ethics) is a form of applied ethics or professional ethics, that examines ethical principles and moral or ethical problems that can arise in a business environment.
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Campaign finance
Campaign finance, also known as election finance, political donations or political finance, refers to the funds raised to promote candidates, political parties, or policy initiatives and referendums.
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Community development
The United Nations defines community development as "a process where community members come together to take collective action and generate solutions to common problems." It is a broad concept, applied to the practices of civic leaders, activists, involved citizens, and professionals to improve various aspects of communities, typically aiming to build stronger and more resilient local communities.
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Consumer organization
Consumer organizations are advocacy groups that seek to protect people from corporate abuse like unsafe products, predatory lending, false advertising, astroturfing and pollution.
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Corporate social responsibility
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) or corporate social impact is a form of international private business self-regulation which aims to contribute to societal goals of a philanthropic, activist, or charitable nature by engaging in, with, or supporting professional service volunteering through pro bono programs, community development, administering monetary grants to non-profit organizations for the public benefit, or to conduct ethically oriented business and investment practices.
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Democratic Party (United States)
The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.
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Discrimination
Discrimination is the process of making unfair or prejudicial distinctions between people based on the groups, classes, or other categories to which they belong or are perceived to belong, such as race, gender, age, religion, physical attractiveness or sexual orientation.
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Domestic partnership
A domestic partnership is an intimate relationship between people, usually couples, who live together and share a common domestic life but who are not married (to each other or to anyone else).
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Donation
A donation is a gift for charity, humanitarian aid, or to benefit a cause.
Ecosystem
An ecosystem (or ecological system) is a system that environments and their organisms form through their interaction.
Employee benefits
Employee benefits and benefits in kind (especially in British English), also called fringe benefits, perquisites, or perks, include various types of non-wage compensation provided to employees in addition to their normal wages or salaries.
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Employment
Employment is a relationship between two parties regulating the provision of paid labour services.
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Environmental Working Group
The Environmental Working Group (EWG) is an American activist group that specializes in research and advocacy in the areas of agricultural subsidies, toxic chemicals, drinking water pollutants, and corporate accountability.
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Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is a federal agency that was established via the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to administer and enforce civil rights laws against workplace discrimination.
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Equal opportunity
Equal opportunity is a state of fairness in which individuals are treated similarly, unhampered by artificial barriers, prejudices, or preferences, except when particular distinctions can be explicitly justified.
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Executive officer
An executive officer is a person who is principally responsible for leading all or part of an organization, although the exact nature of the role varies depending on the organization.
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Greenpeace
Greenpeace is an independent global campaigning network, founded in Canada in 1971 by a group of environmental activists.
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Human rights
Human rights are moral principles or normsJames Nickel, with assistance from Thomas Pogge, M.B.E. Smith, and Leif Wenar, 13 December 2013, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy,.
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Institute for Women's Policy Research
The Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR) is a non-profit research organization based in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1987 by Heidi Hartmann, IWPR works to increase public understanding of how social and government policies impede gender equality.
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Internet forum
An Internet forum, or message board, is an online discussion site where people can hold conversations in the form of posted messages.
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Labour economics
Labour economics, or labor economics, seeks to understand the functioning and dynamics of the markets for wage labour.
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Level of measurement
Level of measurement or scale of measure is a classification that describes the nature of information within the values assigned to variables.
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Multiculturalism
The term multiculturalism has a range of meanings within the contexts of sociology, political philosophy, and colloquial use.
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National Labor Relations Board
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is an independent agency of the federal government of the United States that enforces U.S. labor law in relation to collective bargaining and unfair labor practices.
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Natural environment
The natural environment or natural world encompasses all biotic and abiotic things occurring naturally, meaning in this case not artificial.
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Political action committee
In the United States, a political action committee (PAC) is a tax-exempt 527 organization that pools campaign contributions from members and donates those funds to campaigns for or against candidates, ballot initiatives, or legislation.
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Product liability
Product liability is the area of law in which manufacturers, distributors, suppliers, retailers, and others who make products available to the public are held responsible for the injuries those products cause.
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Progressivism in the United States
Progressivism in the United States is a political philosophy and reform movement.
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Red states and blue states
Starting with the 2000 United States presidential election, the terms "red state" and "blue state" have referred to U.S. states whose voters vote predominantly for one party—the Republican Party in red states and the Democratic Party in blue states—in presidential and other statewide elections.
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Republican Party (United States)
The Republican Party, also known as the GOP (Grand Old Party), is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.
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Resource recovery
Resource recovery is using wastes as an input material to create valuable products as new outputs.
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SA8000
The SA8000 Standard is an auditable certification standard that encourages organizations to develop, maintain, and apply socially acceptable practices in the workplace.
Subsidiary
A subsidiary, subsidiary company or daughter company is a company owned or controlled by another company, which is called the parent company or holding company, which has legal and financial control over the company.
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Sustainability
Sustainability is a social goal for people to co-exist on Earth over a long time.
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Sweatshop
A sweatshop or sweat factory is a crowded workplace with very poor or illegal working conditions, including little to no breaks, inadequate work space, insufficient lighting and ventilation, or uncomfortably or dangerously high or low temperatures.
Trade union
A trade union (British English) or labor union (American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers whose purpose is to maintain or improve the conditions of their employment, such as attaining better wages and benefits, improving working conditions, improving safety standards, establishing complaint procedures, developing rules governing status of employees (rules governing promotions, just-cause conditions for termination) and protecting and increasing the bargaining power of workers.
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Union busting
Union busting is a range of activities undertaken to disrupt or weaken the power of trade unions or their attempts to grow their membership in a workplace.
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United for a Fair Economy
United for a Fair Economy (UFE) is an American left-leaning nonprofit organization.
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United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
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See also
Consumer guides
- Angi Inc.
- BuyBlue.org
- Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s
- Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies
- Christgau's Record Guide: The '80s
- Consumer Reports
- ConsumerLab.com
- Consumerist
- Consumers' Checkbook
- DSLReports
- Gaylocator
- Good Garage Scheme
- GoodGuide
- Graphiq
- GreatSchools
- Guide Hachette des Vins
- Guide Mayer
- HappyCow
- HomeStars
- Honk (website)
- JustiServ
- Kudzu.com
- Labdoor
- Labels
- Michelin Guide
- Niche (company)
- Open Listings
- Restaurant guides
- Review Centre
- Seafood Watch
- Shecky's
- Spartacus International Gay Guide
- Sustainable seafood advisory lists and certification
- TestFreaks
- Tripadvisor
- Winnie (website)
- Yellowpages.com
- Yelp
References
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