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.

The Supervisor From Hell Gets a Pass From SCOTUS

For Disgruntled Young Workers, Lawsuits May Spark Intern Insurrection

Excluded from Federal Standards, California Home Aides Get Their Day in Court

Why Safer Food Workers Mean Safer Food

Recruitment Abuses Emerge in Immigration Reform Debate

Why the Dubai Strike Matters

Anger Rising in Bangladesh, Putting Big Brands Under Pressure

A Budget That Tightens Belts by Emptying Stomachs

Farmworkers Fight Wendy’s, the ‘Last Holdout’ on Fair Food

A More Democratic Foxconn? No One Told the Workers

As Death Toll in Bangladesh Collapse Climbs Past 1,000, Another Factory Fire Claims 8 Lives

That Unemployment Form Might Violate Your Civil Rights

Farmworkers Dig Into the New ‘Blue Card’ Plan

Factory Collapse in Bangladesh Exposes Cracks in the System

Bangladeshi Activists Bring Fight to Wal-Mart’s Doorstep

Cutting the Budget, Bleeding Us Dry

Domestic Workers Sow a New Global Movement

A New Door for Guestworkers?

Women Unionists of the Arab Spring Battle Two Foes: Sexism and Neoliberalism

How ‘This American Life’ Got Disability Wrong

An ‘Undocumentary’ Maker Speaks Out

Is Gender Justice Getting Shafted in Immigration Reform?

How the Poultry Industry is Grinding Up Workers’ Health and Rights

Cambodian Workers Wrest Justice from Wal-Mart and H&M Supplier

Bus Strike Exposes Social Divides in Singapore

Corporate-Approved State Bills Kick Low-Wage Workers While They’re Down

Day Laborers Defend Their Right to Public Space in Court

New York Wants to Boost Food Manufacturing, but Will Communities get a Raw Deal?

All Work and No Pay: Recognizing Women’s Unpaid Labor in the Global South

Locked Out of Jobs, Formerly Incarcerated Struggle to Reintegrate

Obama’s Universal Preschool Plan: As Good as It Sounds?

Immigration Reform Would Boost Business, Undermine Rights

As D.C. politicians quibble over immigration reform, their plans all make the same big mistakes.

Beneath the ‘Fair Trade’ Label, Union-Busting Lurks

Can We Trust Foxconn’s New ‘Democratic’ Chinese Factories?

The Woman Who’s Changing the Definition of ‘Foodie’

ROC’s Saru Jayaraman is doing for ethical eating what Michael Pollan did for slow food.

Imagining a ‘Just Recovery’ from Superstorm Sandy

Cambodian Workers Wait for Wages in the Street, Shaming H&M and Wal-Mart

Reluctant to Hire the Unemployed? Too Bad, Says NYC

Pension Panic Fueled by Anti-Worker Politics?

Qatar Launches Into 2022 World Cup on Backs of Abused Migrants

Aid Groups Fight Anti-Prostitution ‘Oath’ on Free Speech Grounds

Migrant Workers Can’t Win In Xenophobic Greece

We can curb gun violence by ending the War on Drugs.

Flammable Material: How Garment Workers Can Respond to the Tazreen Factory Fire

Despite Exemptions, Police and Firefighters Show Labor Solidarity in Michigan Right-to-Work Battle

Toxic Train Wreck Exposes Weakness in Federal Chemical Policy

The Young and the Disconnected

At ‘Urban Uprising’ Conference, Activists Reimagine the City Post-Sandy

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