The stat, called labor share of national income, is being squeezed by globalization, declining union membership and automation.

Some of the increase reflects growing economies in other countries. And it’s welcome news for U.S. factories, one economist says.

The Trade Adjustment Assistance program aids workers laid off due to trade competition. It stopped taking applications in July.

Adam Posen of the Peterson Institute says that could lead to less varied, costlier goods and a more divided and politically uncertain world.

Before the shipping container, goods were manually loaded into barrels and wooden creates.

In his latest book, globalization scholar Parag Khanna looks at how and why our lives may become a lot more mobile in the decades to come.

Reid Hoffman discusses the unconventional advice he gives entrepreneurs that want to get big fast in his new book.

Even so-called "domestic" carmakers are global companies with international supply chains.

A conversation with Zanny Minton Beddoes, the editor-in-chief of the Economist.