Michelle Chen - In These Times

Michelle Chen is a contributing writer at In These Times and The Nation, a contributing editor at Dissent and a co-producer of the “Belabored” podcast. She studies history at the CUNY Graduate Center. She tweets at @meeshellchen.

Not Just ‘Tools That Breathe’: Labor Activism Steps Forward in China

Cornered by Recession, Unmarried Women Go It Alone

Searching for Work and Stability, Vets Fight New Battles at Home

Protesters Tell It On the Mountain in Coal Country

Where Credit is Due: Tax Breaks to Spur Hiring?

Legal Dissonance: Immigration Policies Clash with Worker Protections

Risks and Returns: Exploiting the Immigrant Detention Industry

Women and the Global Labor Movement: In Search of ‘Decent Work, Decent Life’

Homelessness and the Recession: An Unimaginable Crisis

Puerto Rico Engulfed in Massive Labor Unrest

Flu Vaccine Controversy Gives Health Workers a Dose of Resistance

Filipino Teachers Recruited to ‘Virtual Servitude’ in Louisiana

Robbed of Savings, Older Workers Hit with New Problems

From Beantown to Chi-town, Hotel Workers Rising Up

Recession Brings Uneven Pain, Threatens Uneven Recovery

Navajo Nation Pushes for Green Jobs on Mother Earth

Service Workers in Limbo, as Organizing Strategies Divide Unions

Furloughs Balance State Budgets—on Backs of Critical Workers

Troubled ‘E-Verify’ Program Highlights Dysfunctional Immigration System

Nurses’ Orders: New ‘Super-Union’ Pushes for Healthcare Reform

Workers’ Sick Struggle: Getting Well vs. Getting Paid

Four Years After Katrina, Workers Still Exploited in the Big Easy

The End of Retirement as We Knew It

Labor Movement for the Oldest Profession? Sex Workers Organize

Across an Ocean: Can U.S., Chinese Unions Find Common Ground?

Digesting Whole Foods’ Unsavory Politics

Globalization and Labor: Taking Stock of Free Trade

On the Waterfront: The Struggle for Sustainable Port Trucking

Protecting Washington’s Troublemakers

Will Teachers be Left Behind by the Stimulus Gold Rush?

Perverse Incentives

Falling Through the Climate Gap

Poor Americans will suffer most from global warming.

Overqualified and Unemployed

Shaking up the Big House

Congress Unveils Healthcare Reform Plans

Between Bosses and Labor, Immigration Reform Hangs in Balance

Unequal Education

No Child Left Behind demands equal test scores from neighborhoods with unequal incomes and resources.

Live Chat—Resistance Now!

Palestinian struggle goes viral

Poison Pill Slipped Into Indian Health Bill

Pro-life amendment used to derail legislation

Kenyas Indy Media

Challenging Indian Land Trusts

Air Polluters Sail the High Seas

The environmental law firm EarthJustice, Friends of the Earth and other advocacy groups are taking action to compel the EPA to set comprehensive restrictions on the air pollution that clouds U.S. harbors

Lobbying for Cancer

Corporations are co-opting the federal Data Quality Act to paralyze scientists with frivolous allegations of inaccuracy, driving a stealth assault on public-health research

The Promise of Low Power FM

The voices aired on low-power stations include evangelists, social critics, tomato pickers and indie rockers--all linked by the credo that radio should reflect the heterogeneity of the communities it serves

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