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COURTESY JOHN KLINE
Alta Gracia workers stand outside their factory in the Dominican Republic. John Kline (top), a professor in the School of Foreign Service, and Ed Soule, an associate professor in the McDonough School of Business, announced that Alta Gracia broke even on profits this September.

Business Promotes Living Wage Model

By Charlotte Allen and Editor-in-Chief November 14, 2014

Founded in 2010, Alta Gracia now produces apparel for over 800 university bookstores, including Georgetown’s. Praised for its workers’ rights-focused model, this Dominican Republic-based clothing...

A Profitable Solution To Sweatshop Labor

By Julia Hubbell October 24, 2014

For decades, the worldwide apparel industry has been dominated by a world of oppressive factories and management taking advantage of their employees. In an effort to keep factory costs low and company...

Workers Advocate Dies

By Upasana Kaku November 14, 2011

LaMarr Billups, assistant vice president for business planning policy, died in his Falls Church, Va., home Friday after a brief illness. He was 59 years old. Billups, who joined the university...

Living Wages: A Temporary Fix

By Daniel Kendrick September 20, 2011

Alta Gracia, the charity organization disguised as a business, is floundering. As readers of the Sept. edition of The Hoya discovered (The Hoya, A1 Sept. 9, 2011) this clothing line, which is founded upon...

Alta Gracia Hits a Snag

By Mariah Byrne September 9, 2011

Kline and Soule's report finds that the operating costs for Alta Gracia are almost three times that of its competitors. The authors suggest that the higher productivity of Alta Gracia workers, due...

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