As labor unions battle to retain collective bargaining rights in Wisconsin, Ohio and other states, they are marking the centennial of a tragic factory fire that started the movement that first won those rights.
Chid Liberty's family business high-rise was corrupted into a site of conflict, mass graves and executions during Liberia's fourteen-year civil war.
Liberia suffers from an 80% jobless rate. CNN?s Christian Purefoy reports on how women use other skills for employment.
Fashion isn't an industry typically known for its commitment to selflessness (or, for that matter, sitting quietly). But for more than 20 years, Jacalyn Bennett has been building a booming lingerie business on the unlikely principles of spirituality, benevolence and meditation.
How a seamstress turned politician is almost single-handedly tackling the crisis of displaced families in her troubled Baghdad neighborhood
There is an arithmetic to innovation that seems inescapable--it is repeated again and again in both the business world and the natural world. It is the essence of Silicon Valley. Out of a thousand ...
Look down. It's almost a cinch that whatever you're wearing on your feet wasn't manufactured in America. Of the 1.3 billion pairs of shoes sold annually in the U.S., fewer than one out of 20 is mad...
"Do not touch my tie!" snaps Kiton's normally charming founder, Ciro Paone, slapping away our photographer's hand. "You can make a mannequin look perfect, but not a real man--you must leave him the...
Sometimes Warren Isabelle, 42, can be a bit gloomy. "How am I doing today? Terrible," says he, as a greeting. In a business of rampant bullishness, Isabelle clearly isn't afraid of being negative. ...
The wealth of Japanese corporations intrudes on the consciousness of American business executives through a steady stream of small transactions. A Japanese leasing company buys part of a big Americ...
Isaac Singer started making sewing machines in the U.S. in 1851. These days the company whose products bear his name is called SSMC -- a spinoff from parent Singer Co., which is now devoted solely ...
The company meant sewing machines for 135 years. But in mid-July Singer Co. of Stamford, Connecticut, shed its sewing machine and furniture operations, and stockholders are to get one share in the ...
Conglomerates are out of fashion on Wall Street. Investors prefer companies that are spinning off subsidiaries, reducing debt, and buying back stock. By any of these measures, Willcox & Gibbs falls...
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