A militant union is escalating an unusual wave of strikes in the city of Prato — Italy's so-called textile capital — where ...

The Trump administration faces hard choices in determining what industries to protect as it uses tariffs to construct an ...

In the wake of the recurrent scandals over "sweatshop" conditions in Leicester, the majority of major brands have now abandoned the city, triggering an implosion in production in the place that ...

Personal luxury goods sales that eroded to 364 billion euros ($419 billion) in 2024 are projected to slide by another 2% to 5 ...

Americans have long debated what constitutes a fair wage, and reasonable working conditions, as well as society’s responsibility for meeting those standards. Like the Triangle shirtwaist fire in 1911, ...

This column profiles important historical events which took place during this week, 25 years ago, 50 years ago, 75 years ago ...

Lee Jae-myung of the Democratic Party takes office Wednesday. His first task: Dealing with the economic fallout of President Donald Trump’s tariffs.

He was mayor of Seongnam, governor of Gyeonggi Province, and is now the 14th president of South Korea. This is a remarkable achievement for someone who grew up in a slum south of Seoul, dropped out of ...

South Korea’s main television networks declared Lee “certain to win” by late Tuesday. He had held a comfortable lead over his main rival, the conservative Kim Moon-soo, most of the evening.

Controversy surrounding a speech given by a Chinese Harvard graduate reflects the Chinese public’s “disillusionment” with elite education and “anger at class rigidity”, according to a ...