Free2Work is continuing to generate news and win rave reviews from some of the world’s most respected publications and news programs.

The consumer information platform for iPhone and Android that increases transparency in supply chains has just been featured in the hugely respected business magazine Fast Company, which recognizes that the app is not about awareness; it’s about action.

“More than 30,000,000 people are working as slaves in the global economy. We know many of them make the products that land in our supermarkets and shopping malls. Awareness campaigns and web tools like the Slavery Footprint calculator can even use sophisticated algorithms to make a best guess estimate of just how many slaves are working for you and your lifestyle.

But to take action at the cash register, and for your purchasing power to send an anti-slavery message day in and day out, you need more precise information. Since there’s never going to be a label on packaging that says, ‘made by kidnapped children,’ the anti-slavery nonprofit Not For Sale is doing their best to come up with a substitute: a barcode scanning app that ranks products on labor practices.”

Read the full article by Alex Goldmark on Fast Company’s CoExist Website.