Residents of Elkhart, an Indiana manufacturing town that has seen the largest jump in unemployment in the US this year, are unsure if President Barack Obama can provide a solution to the economic crisis

European companies have long turned to shorter workweeks during times of economic downturn. Can the idea take hold in the U.S?

In the relentless stream of news about the economic crisis, there are a few gems that suggest the credit crisis may have some very beneficial impacts for the environment. When people become more worried about where to get the best deal on their next meal instead of a short-haul flight for the weekend, passenger numbers fall and the need for expansion begins to evaporate, as does the money to fund ...

As we all lurch into economic crisis, will the labour movement and the left be up to the challenge? Our job is to organise for the working class to defend itself from the effects of the crisis. We need to do so ideologically, politically and economically ie. to understand the crisis, to put forward demands for government action, and to encourage effective industrial action by workers. Failure to d...

European leaders will meet in Brussels on 1 March for an extraordinary meeting aimed at addressing the economic crisis and avoiding a protectionist spiral, while another summit in Prague will tackle rising concerns over unemployment, it emerged yesterday (11 February).

Writing in The Independent, Vince Cable said: No one fully understands the scale of the complex but extreme economic crisis we face or has any simple, silver bullet, solution to it. The problems are partly international – the “credit crunch” – and partly national. The latter is a legacy of a long period of economic growth built

There are many issues for women in the economic crisis that is upon us. It's not that I think that there is particularly a feminist analysis alternative to the Marxist analysis that we need (although there is a need for economic analysis to take account of women's unpaid work). But there are ways in which the crisis will impact on women - primarily working-class women - that we need to p...

by Ken Livingstone I am writing to let you know about a conference on Saturday 11 July to discuss London and the global economic crisis. The dominant economic orthodoxy since Thatcher and Reagan has been smashed by the deepest economic crisis since 1929. The alternative traditional Keynesian methods may not be sufficient to meet this crisis. In

Right Democrat has this: On April 11, 2009 at 2pm ET/11am PT, there will be protests in cities across the country to break the power of the financial industry and the bankers that caused the current economic crisis. With growing frustration over unemployment, foreclosures and how the government has responded to the economic crisis so far, a web organizing platform, has emerged to allow people and ...

Journalist Hsiao-Hung Pai spoke to migrant workers at a labour market in Sichuan province about the impact of the global economic crisis on China’s economy