Firestone, a multinational rubber manufacturing giant known for its automobile tires, has come under fire from human rights and environmental groups for its alleged use of child labor and slave-like ...

HARBEL, Liberia (AP) -- The 6,500 workers at the Firestone rubber plantation in Liberia are bracing for job cuts after the American-owned company announced it will substantially reduce its workforce.

There's a company town in Liberia with 80,000 residents. Ebola was first detected in March. Firestone's resourceful response has kept the virus... Firestone Did What Governments Have Not: Stopped ...

In 1926, Harvey S. Firestone Sr., the millionaire founder of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, set his sights on an ambitious goal: to break the British and Dutch monopoly on the global rubber ...

Workers at Firestone's wood-processing facility wear tiny orange earplugs to shield their eardrums from the constant roar of machinery. But they have no protection from the fumes of the glue that ...

On a warm January day in 1924, W.E.B. Du Bois looked out over an abandoned plantation, a forest of more than 200,000 rubber trees, in neat rows, on the outskirts of Monrovia, Liberia. The ...

Earlier this month, the University finished the Firestone Library renovation, after more than a decade of work. The Library, stocked with chic crimson chairs and new fluorescent chandeliers, now meets ...

The Firestone rubber plantation at Harbel, Liberia, stands out as a company town in the truest sense. Managers live in company-built brick apartments and two-story homes. Laborers stay in smaller, ...