Levi Strauss & Co.

public company

Levi Strauss & Co.

Industry Clothing

A public denim and apparel company selling jeans, clothing, and accessories through retail, wholesale, and online channels. Levi’s scores somewhat better than faster fashion peers because of supply-chain programs and durable core products, but remains a shareholder-governed global apparel company with labor and ecological burdens.

Why this matters: Jeans and basics are ordinary purchases, and Levi’s helps calibrate the middle ground between fast fashion and more durable apparel.

Letter grade D Extractive Medium confidence (AI) Rubric gcd-rubric-v1

Final Score 15* D - Extractive

* Tentative scaffolding score. Not human-checked or final.

Base Material23
Bonus+1
Cap35Ownership <= 2 and Governance <= 2
After Cap24
Penalties-9
G
Private Government badge

Levi Strauss & Co. receives the Private Government badge because it combines large-scale private rule-setting over customers, workers, users, members, or counterparties with OpenLobby-documented lobbying of about $1.8M on public policy issues.

Evidence: [9]

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Evaluation Overview

D - Extractive

The score turns mainly on Product Integrity, with the largest penalty coming from Policy Capture.

Strengths

  • Product Integrity4/5
  • Extraction3/10
  • Loss-Bearing Fidelity3/7

Penalties

  • Policy Capture-5
  • Ecological Harm-2
  • Toxic Products-1
  • Surveillance Capture-1

Evidence state

  • ConfidenceMedium confidence (AI)
  • ThoroughnessDeveloped (AI)
  • Linked claims9
  • Direct axis claims8
  • Coverage8/14

Scoring Axes

Axis Score Why this score
Ownership
?
Control rights: shareholder-dominated at 0, worker cooperative control at 10.
2 / 10

Levi Strauss & Co. is controlled through conventional corporate ownership rather than worker, customer, or community governance.

Linked evidence
  • Levi Strauss & Co. is controlled through conventional corporate ownership rather than worker, customer, or community governance. [1]
Governance
?
Binding decision authority: centralized control at 0, democratic stakeholder control at 10.
2 / 10

Levi Strauss & Co. sells apparel, footwear, accessories, or related consumer goods at large scale through stores, wholesale, and digital channels.

Linked evidence
  • context Levi Strauss & Co. sells apparel, footwear, accessories, or related consumer goods at large scale through stores, wholesale, and digital channels. [2]
  • context Levi Strauss & Co. is controlled through conventional corporate ownership rather than worker, customer, or community governance. [1]
  • context Levi Strauss & Co. depends on global apparel or footwear supply chains where worker power is mostly mediated through supplier codes, audits, and compliance programs rather than worker control. [3]
  • context Levi Strauss & Co. retains conduct relevant to the Ecological Harm penalty: its clothing model creates material emissions, waste, packaging, production, logistics, or land-use burdens. [4]
  • context Levi Strauss & Co. retains conduct relevant to the Toxic Products penalty: its product category includes materials, chemicals, additives, packaging, or ordinary-use harms that create toxic or safety risk. [5]
  • context Levi Strauss & Co. retains conduct relevant to the Surveillance Capture penalty: customer, app, account, location, purchase, trip, or behavioral data materially increases institutional power over users. [6]
  • context Levi Strauss & Co. receives limited Good Deal credit because the service or products provide unusually broad practical usefulness or price value relative to adjacent competitors, despite the larger structural limits. [7]
Extraction
?
Surplus allocation, wage share, CEO pay ratio, margins, and structured extraction judgment.
3 / 10

Levi Strauss & Co. sells apparel, footwear, accessories, or related consumer goods at large scale through stores, wholesale, and digital channels.

Linked evidence
  • context Levi Strauss & Co. sells apparel, footwear, accessories, or related consumer goods at large scale through stores, wholesale, and digital channels. [2]
  • context Levi Strauss & Co. is controlled through conventional corporate ownership rather than worker, customer, or community governance. [1]
  • context Levi Strauss & Co. depends on global apparel or footwear supply chains where worker power is mostly mediated through supplier codes, audits, and compliance programs rather than worker control. [3]
  • context Levi Strauss & Co. retains conduct relevant to the Ecological Harm penalty: its clothing model creates material emissions, waste, packaging, production, logistics, or land-use burdens. [4]
  • context Levi Strauss & Co. retains conduct relevant to the Toxic Products penalty: its product category includes materials, chemicals, additives, packaging, or ordinary-use harms that create toxic or safety risk. [5]
  • context Levi Strauss & Co. retains conduct relevant to the Surveillance Capture penalty: customer, app, account, location, purchase, trip, or behavioral data materially increases institutional power over users. [6]
  • context Levi Strauss & Co. receives limited Good Deal credit because the service or products provide unusually broad practical usefulness or price value relative to adjacent competitors, despite the larger structural limits. [7]
Labor Sovereignty
?
Worker power: coercive conditions at 0, co-determination or ownership at 7. Employee dissatisfaction matters only when source-backed evidence shows concrete limits on worker agency, such as coercive scheduling, retaliation, wage theft, harassment, unsafe conditions, suppression of worker voice, or extreme turnover.
2 / 7

Levi Strauss & Co. depends on global apparel or footwear supply chains where worker power is mostly mediated through supplier codes, audits, and compliance programs rather than worker control.

Linked evidence
  • Levi Strauss & Co. depends on global apparel or footwear supply chains where worker power is mostly mediated through supplier codes, audits, and compliance programs rather than worker control. [3]
Solidarity with the Unemployed
?
Treatment of exits and nonworkers, including severance, redeployment, and non-competes.
1 / 7

Levi Strauss & Co. sells apparel, footwear, accessories, or related consumer goods at large scale through stores, wholesale, and digital channels.

Linked evidence
  • context Levi Strauss & Co. sells apparel, footwear, accessories, or related consumer goods at large scale through stores, wholesale, and digital channels. [2]
  • context Levi Strauss & Co. is controlled through conventional corporate ownership rather than worker, customer, or community governance. [1]
  • context Levi Strauss & Co. depends on global apparel or footwear supply chains where worker power is mostly mediated through supplier codes, audits, and compliance programs rather than worker control. [3]
  • context Levi Strauss & Co. retains conduct relevant to the Ecological Harm penalty: its clothing model creates material emissions, waste, packaging, production, logistics, or land-use burdens. [4]
  • context Levi Strauss & Co. retains conduct relevant to the Toxic Products penalty: its product category includes materials, chemicals, additives, packaging, or ordinary-use harms that create toxic or safety risk. [5]
  • context Levi Strauss & Co. retains conduct relevant to the Surveillance Capture penalty: customer, app, account, location, purchase, trip, or behavioral data materially increases institutional power over users. [6]
  • context Levi Strauss & Co. receives limited Good Deal credit because the service or products provide unusually broad practical usefulness or price value relative to adjacent competitors, despite the larger structural limits. [7]
Loss-Bearing Fidelity
?
Willingness to absorb costs to preserve values, workers, users, and public obligations.
3 / 7

Levi Strauss & Co. sells apparel, footwear, accessories, or related consumer goods at large scale through stores, wholesale, and digital channels.

Linked evidence
  • context Levi Strauss & Co. sells apparel, footwear, accessories, or related consumer goods at large scale through stores, wholesale, and digital channels. [2]
  • context Levi Strauss & Co. is controlled through conventional corporate ownership rather than worker, customer, or community governance. [1]
  • context Levi Strauss & Co. depends on global apparel or footwear supply chains where worker power is mostly mediated through supplier codes, audits, and compliance programs rather than worker control. [3]
  • context Levi Strauss & Co. retains conduct relevant to the Ecological Harm penalty: its clothing model creates material emissions, waste, packaging, production, logistics, or land-use burdens. [4]
  • context Levi Strauss & Co. retains conduct relevant to the Toxic Products penalty: its product category includes materials, chemicals, additives, packaging, or ordinary-use harms that create toxic or safety risk. [5]
  • context Levi Strauss & Co. retains conduct relevant to the Surveillance Capture penalty: customer, app, account, location, purchase, trip, or behavioral data materially increases institutional power over users. [6]
  • context Levi Strauss & Co. receives limited Good Deal credit because the service or products provide unusually broad practical usefulness or price value relative to adjacent competitors, despite the larger structural limits. [7]
Market Conduct
?
Pricing fairness, switching costs, lock-in, and rent extraction.
3 / 5

Levi Strauss & Co. sells apparel, footwear, accessories, or related consumer goods at large scale through stores, wholesale, and digital channels.

Linked evidence
  • context Levi Strauss & Co. sells apparel, footwear, accessories, or related consumer goods at large scale through stores, wholesale, and digital channels. [2]
  • context Levi Strauss & Co. is controlled through conventional corporate ownership rather than worker, customer, or community governance. [1]
  • context Levi Strauss & Co. depends on global apparel or footwear supply chains where worker power is mostly mediated through supplier codes, audits, and compliance programs rather than worker control. [3]
  • context Levi Strauss & Co. retains conduct relevant to the Ecological Harm penalty: its clothing model creates material emissions, waste, packaging, production, logistics, or land-use burdens. [4]
  • context Levi Strauss & Co. retains conduct relevant to the Toxic Products penalty: its product category includes materials, chemicals, additives, packaging, or ordinary-use harms that create toxic or safety risk. [5]
  • context Levi Strauss & Co. retains conduct relevant to the Surveillance Capture penalty: customer, app, account, location, purchase, trip, or behavioral data materially increases institutional power over users. [6]
  • context Levi Strauss & Co. receives limited Good Deal credit because the service or products provide unusually broad practical usefulness or price value relative to adjacent competitors, despite the larger structural limits. [7]
Product Integrity
?
Preservation of quality rather than degradation for monetization.
4 / 5

Levi Strauss & Co. sells apparel, footwear, accessories, or related consumer goods at large scale through stores, wholesale, and digital channels.

Linked evidence
  • Levi Strauss & Co. sells apparel, footwear, accessories, or related consumer goods at large scale through stores, wholesale, and digital channels. [2]
Scale Integrity
?
Whether growth improves or degrades fairness and accountability.
3 / 5

Levi Strauss & Co. sells apparel, footwear, accessories, or related consumer goods at large scale through stores, wholesale, and digital channels.

Linked evidence
  • context Levi Strauss & Co. sells apparel, footwear, accessories, or related consumer goods at large scale through stores, wholesale, and digital channels. [2]
  • context Levi Strauss & Co. is controlled through conventional corporate ownership rather than worker, customer, or community governance. [1]
  • context Levi Strauss & Co. depends on global apparel or footwear supply chains where worker power is mostly mediated through supplier codes, audits, and compliance programs rather than worker control. [3]
  • context Levi Strauss & Co. retains conduct relevant to the Ecological Harm penalty: its clothing model creates material emissions, waste, packaging, production, logistics, or land-use burdens. [4]
  • context Levi Strauss & Co. retains conduct relevant to the Toxic Products penalty: its product category includes materials, chemicals, additives, packaging, or ordinary-use harms that create toxic or safety risk. [5]
  • context Levi Strauss & Co. retains conduct relevant to the Surveillance Capture penalty: customer, app, account, location, purchase, trip, or behavioral data materially increases institutional power over users. [6]
  • context Levi Strauss & Co. receives limited Good Deal credit because the service or products provide unusually broad practical usefulness or price value relative to adjacent competitors, despite the larger structural limits. [7]

Penalties

Penalty Applied Why this penalty
Ecological Harm
?
Footprint, trajectory, irreversibility, culpability, and scale, including whether ecological harm is central to the model and continued after credible notice. Range: -30 to 0.
-2

Levi Strauss & Co. retains conduct relevant to the Ecological Harm penalty: its clothing model creates material emissions, waste, packaging, production, logistics, or land-use burdens.

Linked evidence
  • Levi Strauss & Co. retains conduct relevant to the Ecological Harm penalty: its clothing model creates material emissions, waste, packaging, production, logistics, or land-use burdens. [4]
Policy Capture
?
Private-interest attempts to bend law, regulation, subsidies, taxes, enforcement, trade, labor, safety, competition, environmental, healthcare, housing, surveillance, civil-liberties, or consumer policy against workers, customers, citizens, affected communities, or ecological life. Public-interest advocacy is not penalized merely because it is lobbying. Range: -15 to 0.
-5

OpenLobby records LEVI STRAUSS & COMPANY lobbying on trade, APP, tax with about $1.8M in spending across 34 filings; the reviewed filings document private institutional lobbying over public rules rather than a public-interest advocacy role.

Linked evidence
  • OpenLobby records LEVI STRAUSS & COMPANY lobbying on trade, APP, tax with about $1.8M in spending across 34 filings; the reviewed filings document private institutional lobbying over public rules rather than a public-interest advocacy role. [8]
Toxic Products
?
Current sale of products whose ordinary use, exposure, ingredients, residues, packaging, or formulation creates toxic, addictive, or consumer-safety risk. Food products receive at least light scrutiny for artificial colors, artificial flavors, petro-derived additives, pesticide residues, contaminants, endocrine-disrupting packaging, and ultra-processed formulation. Ordinary adult nightlife or alcohol service is not penalized by itself without evidence of predatory marketing, youth targeting, addiction-extractive design, or unusual product-safety misconduct. Range: -5 to 0.
-1

Levi Strauss & Co. retains conduct relevant to the Toxic Products penalty: its product category includes materials, chemicals, additives, packaging, or ordinary-use harms that create toxic or safety risk.

Linked evidence
  • Levi Strauss & Co. retains conduct relevant to the Toxic Products penalty: its product category includes materials, chemicals, additives, packaging, or ordinary-use harms that create toxic or safety risk. [5]
Surveillance Capture
?
Invasive surveillance, unreasonably non-optional tracking, facial recognition, biometric identification, or AI behavior scanning of customers, workers, bystanders, or the public. Range: -5 to 0.
-1

Levi Strauss & Co. retains conduct relevant to the Surveillance Capture penalty: customer, app, account, location, purchase, trip, or behavioral data materially increases institutional power over users.

Linked evidence
  • Levi Strauss & Co. retains conduct relevant to the Surveillance Capture penalty: customer, app, account, location, purchase, trip, or behavioral data materially increases institutional power over users. [6]

Bonus Credits

Bonus Credit Why this credit
Good Deal
?
Credit for unusually fair value: durable quality, fair pricing, low lock-in, and clear customer surplus.
1 / 3

The service or products provide unusually broad practical usefulness or price value relative to adjacent competitors, despite the larger structural limits.

Linked evidence
  • Levi Strauss & Co. receives limited Good Deal credit because the service or products provide unusually broad practical usefulness or price value relative to adjacent competitors, despite the larger structural limits. [7]

Confidence Basis

Confidence Basis

Confidence is computed from the evidence trail and review state, not typed into the profile by hand.

Medium 74/100

8 verified linked claims 8 direct axis claims 0 disputed claims 8/14 components covered

This confidence label measures the source-backed evidence trail. AI-scaffolded scores remain tentative until human review.

Claim confidence 15/20

8 verified linked claims

Source quality 15/18

Best source per verified claim, weighted by institutional reliability

Direct axis-specific claims 9/18

8 direct claims across 14 active components

Dispute load 12/12

0 disputed claims on this entity

Recency 10/10

Newest accepted timestamp: May 13, 2026

Reviewer status 7/12

Human-reviewed components score higher than AI scaffolding

Component coverage 6/10

8/14 evidence-bearing components have direct support

Evidence State

Evidence State

Profile stateAI draft / human-pending
VerificationUnverified
ConfidenceMedium confidence (AI)
ThoroughnessDeveloped (AI)
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Claims and Sources

Claims are the evidence record. Each claim needs a source link, axis category, status, confidence level, and timestamp before it can support a score.

* Tentative scaffolding score. Not human-checked or final.
1Levi Strauss & Co. is controlled through conventional corporate ownership rather than worker, customer, or community governance.

Ownership Verified High confidence AI-generated / human-pending

AI scaffold

2Levi Strauss & Co. sells apparel, footwear, accessories, or related consumer goods at large scale through stores, wholesale, and digital channels.

Product Integrity Verified High confidence AI-generated / human-pending

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3Levi Strauss & Co. depends on global apparel or footwear supply chains where worker power is mostly mediated through supplier codes, audits, and compliance programs rather than worker control.

Labor Sovereignty Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending

AI scaffold

4Levi Strauss & Co. retains conduct relevant to the Ecological Harm penalty: its clothing model creates material emissions, waste, packaging, production, logistics, or land-use burdens.

Ecological Harm Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending

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5Levi Strauss & Co. retains conduct relevant to the Toxic Products penalty: its product category includes materials, chemicals, additives, packaging, or ordinary-use harms that create toxic or safety risk.

Toxic Products Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending

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6Levi Strauss & Co. retains conduct relevant to the Surveillance Capture penalty: customer, app, account, location, purchase, trip, or behavioral data materially increases institutional power over users.

Surveillance Capture Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending

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7Levi Strauss & Co. receives limited Good Deal credit because the service or products provide unusually broad practical usefulness or price value relative to adjacent competitors, despite the larger structural limits.

Good Deal Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending

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8OpenLobby records LEVI STRAUSS & COMPANY lobbying on trade, APP, tax with about $1.8M in spending across 34 filings; the reviewed filings document private institutional lobbying over public rules rather than a public-interest advocacy role.

Policy Capture Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending

AI scaffold

9Levi Strauss & Co. receives the Private Government badge because it combines large-scale private rule-setting over customers, workers, users, members, or counterparties with OpenLobby-documented lobbying of about $1.8M on public policy issues.

Private Government Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending

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