New York City’s 10,000 street vendors play an important and vibrant role in the city's cultural and gastronomic landscape, selling food, artwork and other merchandise. Yet they are often made invisible in the...
Last week’s collapse of a garment factory outside Dhaka, Bangladesh left over 370 dead with scores of people still missing. The tragedy has renewed calls for international fair labor standards in the garment industry...
In recent months, trade officials have been meeting behind closed doors, quietly crafting a sweeping new international trade deal that threatens to plunge economies in Asia, Australia and the Americas into a new era of...
For workers who regularly send money to family members abroad, the experience can be both harrowing and infuriating. Western Union and MoneyGram, which account for a combined 22% of the market, charge hefty fees and...
A new report from Chhaya Community Development Corporation shows how the economic downturn has impacted housing for New York's expanding South Asian community. The report finds that while the South Asian population...
As the Occupy movement fights to achieve economic justice for the working people of America, it has been striving to organize and stand alongside institutions like trade unions--which are not always as radical or...
India’s cabinet recently moved to allow multinational mass chain stores like Wal-Mart to expand their presence in local retail markets. This would allow an unprecedented degree of foreign-direct investment in a sector...
The Occupy Wall Street movement has taken the country by storm. Zucotti Park, where it all began here in New York, is located only a few blocks from Chinatown. Asian Americans, feeling the impact of the economic crisis,...
The Chinese government’s huge investment on solar technology in recent years is often the envy of many environmental groups. But one community recently
Founded in 2008 by a musician and former migrant worker, the Culture and Art Museum of Migrant Workers in Beijing uses music, theater and other forms of artistic expression to record the histories of Chinese migrant...
