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
* Tentative scaffolding score. Not human-checked or final.
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
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Control rights: shareholder-dominated at 0, worker cooperative control
at 10.
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2 / 10 |
Levi Strauss & Co. is controlled through conventional corporate ownership rather than worker, customer, or community governance. Linked evidence
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Governance
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Binding decision authority: centralized control at 0, democratic
stakeholder control at 10.
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2 / 10 |
Levi Strauss & Co. sells apparel, footwear, accessories, or related consumer goods at large scale through stores, wholesale, and digital channels. Linked evidence
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Extraction
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Surplus allocation, wage share, CEO pay ratio, margins, and structured
extraction judgment.
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3 / 10 |
Levi Strauss & Co. sells apparel, footwear, accessories, or related consumer goods at large scale through stores, wholesale, and digital channels. Linked evidence
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Labor Sovereignty
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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.
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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
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Solidarity with the
Unemployed
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Treatment of exits and nonworkers, including severance, redeployment,
and non-competes.
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1 / 7 |
Levi Strauss & Co. sells apparel, footwear, accessories, or related consumer goods at large scale through stores, wholesale, and digital channels. Linked evidence
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Loss-Bearing Fidelity
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Willingness to absorb costs to preserve values, workers, users, and
public obligations.
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3 / 7 |
Levi Strauss & Co. sells apparel, footwear, accessories, or related consumer goods at large scale through stores, wholesale, and digital channels. Linked evidence
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Market Conduct
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Pricing fairness, switching costs, lock-in, and rent extraction.
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3 / 5 |
Levi Strauss & Co. sells apparel, footwear, accessories, or related consumer goods at large scale through stores, wholesale, and digital channels. Linked evidence
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Product Integrity
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Preservation of quality rather than degradation for monetization.
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4 / 5 |
Levi Strauss & Co. sells apparel, footwear, accessories, or related consumer goods at large scale through stores, wholesale, and digital channels. Linked evidence
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Scale Integrity
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Whether growth improves or degrades fairness and accountability.
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3 / 5 |
Levi Strauss & Co. sells apparel, footwear, accessories, or related consumer goods at large scale through stores, wholesale, and digital channels. Linked evidence
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Penalties
| Penalty | Applied | Why this penalty |
|---|---|---|
Ecological Harm
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Footprint, trajectory, irreversibility, culpability, and scale,
including whether ecological harm is central to the model and continued
after credible notice. Range: -30 to 0.
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-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
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Policy Capture
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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.
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-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
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Toxic Products
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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.
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-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
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Surveillance Capture
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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.
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-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
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Bonus Credits
| Bonus | Credit | Why this credit |
|---|---|---|
Good Deal
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Credit for unusually fair value: durable quality, fair pricing, low
lock-in, and clear customer surplus.
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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
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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
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.
- Levi Strauss annual reportsPrimary institutional record · 90%
- Levi Strauss supply-chain sustainabilityGeneral web source · 58%
- Levi Strauss privacy policyOfficial self-description · 68%
2Levi Strauss & Co. sells apparel, footwear, accessories, or related consumer goods at large scale through stores, wholesale, and digital channels.
- Levi Strauss annual reportsPrimary institutional record · 90%
- Levi Strauss supply-chain sustainabilityGeneral web source · 58%
- Levi Strauss privacy policyOfficial self-description · 68%
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.
- Levi Strauss annual reportsPrimary institutional record · 90%
- Levi Strauss supply-chain sustainabilityGeneral web source · 58%
- Levi Strauss privacy policyOfficial self-description · 68%
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.
- Levi Strauss annual reportsPrimary institutional record · 90%
- Levi Strauss supply-chain sustainabilityGeneral web source · 58%
- Levi Strauss privacy policyOfficial self-description · 68%
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.
- Levi Strauss annual reportsPrimary institutional record · 90%
- Levi Strauss supply-chain sustainabilityGeneral web source · 58%
- Levi Strauss privacy policyOfficial self-description · 68%
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.
- Levi Strauss annual reportsPrimary institutional record · 90%
- Levi Strauss supply-chain sustainabilityGeneral web source · 58%
- Levi Strauss privacy policyOfficial self-description · 68%
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.
- Levi Strauss annual reportsPrimary institutional record · 90%
- Levi Strauss supply-chain sustainabilityGeneral web source · 58%
- Levi Strauss privacy policyOfficial self-description · 68%
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.
- OpenLobby — LEVI STRAUSS & COMPANY lobbying profileGeneral web source · 58%
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.
- OpenLobby — LEVI STRAUSS & COMPANY lobbying profileGeneral web source · 58%
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