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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
The Supervisor From Hell Gets a Pass From SCOTUS
Michelle Chen
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For Disgruntled Young Workers, Lawsuits May Spark Intern Insurrection
Michelle Chen
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Excluded from Federal Standards, California Home Aides Get Their Day in Court
Michelle Chen
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Why Safer Food Workers Mean Safer Food
Michelle Chen
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Recruitment Abuses Emerge in Immigration Reform Debate
Michelle Chen
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Why the Dubai Strike Matters
Michelle Chen
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Anger Rising in Bangladesh, Putting Big Brands Under Pressure
Michelle Chen
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A Budget That Tightens Belts by Emptying Stomachs
Michelle Chen
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Labor
Farmworkers Fight Wendy’s, the ‘Last Holdout’ on Fair Food
Michelle Chen
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Labor
A More Democratic Foxconn? No One Told the Workers
Michelle Chen
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As Death Toll in Bangladesh Collapse Climbs Past 1,000, Another Factory Fire Claims 8 Lives
Michelle Chen
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Labor
That Unemployment Form Might Violate Your Civil Rights
Michelle Chen
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Labor
Farmworkers Dig Into the New ‘Blue Card’ Plan
Michelle Chen
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Labor
Factory Collapse in Bangladesh Exposes Cracks in the System
Michelle Chen
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Labor
Bangladeshi Activists Bring Fight to Wal-Mart’s Doorstep
Michelle Chen
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Labor
Cutting the Budget, Bleeding Us Dry
Michelle Chen
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Labor
Domestic Workers Sow a New Global Movement
Michelle Chen
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Labor
A New Door for Guestworkers?
Michelle Chen
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Labor
Women Unionists of the Arab Spring Battle Two Foes: Sexism and Neoliberalism
Michelle Chen
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Labor
How ‘This American Life’ Got Disability Wrong
Michelle Chen
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An ‘Undocumentary’ Maker Speaks Out
Michelle Chen
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Labor
Is Gender Justice Getting Shafted in Immigration Reform?
Michelle Chen
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Labor
How the Poultry Industry is Grinding Up Workers’ Health and Rights
Michelle Chen
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Labor
Cambodian Workers Wrest Justice from Wal-Mart and H&M Supplier
Michelle Chen
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Labor
Bus Strike Exposes Social Divides in Singapore
Michelle Chen
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Labor
Corporate-Approved State Bills Kick Low-Wage Workers While They’re Down
Michelle Chen
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Labor
Day Laborers Defend Their Right to Public Space in Court
Michelle Chen
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Labor
New York Wants to Boost Food Manufacturing, but Will Communities get a Raw Deal?
Michelle Chen
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Labor
All Work and No Pay: Recognizing Women’s Unpaid Labor in the Global South
Michelle Chen
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Labor
Locked Out of Jobs, Formerly Incarcerated Struggle to Reintegrate
Michelle Chen
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Labor
Obama’s Universal Preschool Plan: As Good as It Sounds?
Michelle Chen
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Feature
Immigration Reform Would Boost Business, Undermine Rights
As D.C. politicians quibble over immigration reform, their plans all make the same big mistakes.
Michelle Chen
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Labor
Beneath the ‘Fair Trade’ Label, Union-Busting Lurks
Michelle Chen
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Labor
Can We Trust Foxconn’s New ‘Democratic’ Chinese Factories?
Michelle Chen
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Feature
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.
Michelle Chen
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Labor
Imagining a ‘Just Recovery’ from Superstorm Sandy
Michelle Chen
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Labor
Cambodian Workers Wait for Wages in the Street, Shaming H&M and Wal-Mart
Michelle Chen
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Labor
Reluctant to Hire the Unemployed? Too Bad, Says NYC
Michelle Chen
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Labor
Pension Panic Fueled by Anti-Worker Politics?
Michelle Chen
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Labor
Qatar Launches Into 2022 World Cup on Backs of Abused Migrants
Michelle Chen
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Labor
Aid Groups Fight Anti-Prostitution ‘Oath’ on Free Speech Grounds
Michelle Chen
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Labor
Migrant Workers Can’t Win In Xenophobic Greece
Michelle Chen
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Feature
Guns and Drugs
We can curb gun violence by ending the War on Drugs.
Michelle Chen
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Labor
Flammable Material: How Garment Workers Can Respond to the Tazreen Factory Fire
Michelle Chen
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Labor
Despite Exemptions, Police and Firefighters Show Labor Solidarity in Michigan Right-to-Work Battle
Michelle Chen
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Labor
Toxic Train Wreck Exposes Weakness in Federal Chemical Policy
Michelle Chen
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Labor
The Young and the Disconnected
Michelle Chen
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At ‘Urban Uprising’ Conference, Activists Reimagine the City Post-Sandy
Michelle Chen