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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.
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Labor
Court Okays Labor Department Rule: Guestworkers Must Earn Prevailing Wages
Michelle Chen
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Labor
Workers Can ‘Don and Doff’ Off the Clock, Says Court
Michelle Chen
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Labor
Who’s Really To Blame for Unemployment?
Michelle Chen
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Labor
A House Is Not a Home Without Rights for Care Workers
Michelle Chen
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Labor
Coal Spill Puts Spotlight on Colombia’s Labor and Environmental Struggles
Michelle Chen
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Labor
Capitalists for a Higher Minimum Wage
Michelle Chen
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Labor
New York’s All-Day Pre-K Plan: Good News for Teachers?
Michelle Chen
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Labor
Despite Violence, Cambodian Workers Vow To Continue Their Fight
Michelle Chen
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Labor
Dignitary’s Maid Reveals Indignities of Domestic Work
Michelle Chen
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Labor
Angry Workers Swarm Seoul’s Streets, Demand President Resign
Michelle Chen
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Labor
The U.S. Government Uses Sweatshops, Too
Michelle Chen
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Labor
Advice for Young Women: Get a Union Job
Michelle Chen
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Labor
National Paid Family Leave May Finally Be on the Horizon
Michelle Chen
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Labor
Teachers Seek to ‘Reclaim’ Education
Michelle Chen
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Labor
Sex Workers in France Resist Attacks on Their Liberty
Michelle Chen
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Labor
‘From Bean to Cup,’ Starbucks Labor Action Heats Up
Michelle Chen
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Labor
Wait for Medical Relief Drags on for Last of Ground Zero Victims
Michelle Chen
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Labor
A New Day, A New Danger: Temporary Workers Face Safety Hazards at Work
Michelle Chen
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Labor
Qatar’s World Cup Spectacle Brought to You by Slavery
Michelle Chen
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Labor
From U.S. to Philippines, Nurses Mobilize in Typhoon Haiyan’s Wake
Michelle Chen
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Labor
Instructors Often Pressured to Censor Themselves, Says Professor Scolded for ‘Tea Party’ Email
Michelle Chen
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Labor
How Sandy Clean-Up Brought Day Laborers Out of the Shadows
Michelle Chen
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Labor
Exploitation Remains the Name of the Game at Dell’s Chinese Factories
Michelle Chen
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Labor
A Halloween Nightmare in Juárez
Michelle Chen
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Labor
Minimum-Wage Hike Won’t Appease Bangladeshi Workers
Michelle Chen
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Labor
Guitar Center Workers Rock the Shop Floor
Michelle Chen
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Labor
Educators Wary of Tech Fixes for College Affordability Crisis
Michelle Chen
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Labor
Migrant Women Bring Voices to Capital
Michelle Chen
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Labor
When Federal Contracts Turn Into Corporate Welfare
Michelle Chen
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Labor
Wage Wars: Bangladeshi Workers Reach a Boiling Point
Michelle Chen
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Labor
New York City Immigrants Test a New Economic “Bridge”
Michelle Chen
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Labor
Ban Ki-Moon Accused of Union-Busting at UN
Michelle Chen
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Labor
Mexico City Erupts Over Neoliberal Education Bill
Michelle Chen
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Labor
Carwash Workers and Capitol Hill: Immigration in Limbo
Michelle Chen
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Labor
Bullet-proof Jobs: Summer Employment May Help Stem Youth Violence
Michelle Chen
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Labor
Carnivals Are No Picnic for Migrant Workers
Michelle Chen
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Labor
Unions Under Siege in Guatemala
Michelle Chen
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Dispatch
No Room of Their Own for New Yorkers in Need
Privatization threatens New York's public housing system.
Michelle Chen
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Labor
Caring for Workers Who Care for Our Loved Ones
Michelle Chen
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Labor
More Bad Apple: Watchdog Exposes New Chinese Factory Abuses
Michelle Chen
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Feature
No Papers, No Fear
The 'Dream 9' represent a radical strand of the immigration movement that's fed up with compromise.
Michelle Chen
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Labor
Farmworkers Face Silent Spring in the Fields
Michelle Chen
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Feature
‘Bargain’ on Immigration Would Feed Prison Profits
The private prison industry stands to gain millions from the Senate's reform plan.
Michelle Chen
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