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.

China Labor Watchdogs Expose Dark Side of Global Toy Empire

Foodies Get Wobbly

Food supply chain workers adopt the IWW's radical actions to fight abusive employers.

Bangladesh Factory Fire: Workers Burn, Walmart Ducks Responsibility

Immigrant Supply-Chain Labor Struggles Galvanize Walmart Activism

Coal Communities at the Pivot of Dirty Industries and Clean Energy

Post-Sandy Relief Workers Toil in Tough Labor Conditions

Civil Rights Orgs File Complaint Over New York’s High Stakes Tests

Bulls-Hit Ranch Labor Scandal Ensnared Florida Homeless

In Sandy’s Wake, New York’s Landscape of Inequity Revealed

Without Workplace Justice, Parents Have No Good Options for Sick Kids

World Bank’s Anti-Labor Analysis Is a Dirty Business

The Formula for ‘Equal Opportunity’: Why Affirmative Action Isn’t Enough

Pesticide Threat Looms Large Over Farmworker Families

$950,000 Win for NYC Workers Invigorates Supply-Chain-Justice Movement

On Both Sides of the Border, Teachers Fight Corporatization

From Indonesia to California, Laborers Say ‘No’ to Precarious Work

Workers and Activists Look Ahead after Gov. Brown Vetoes Pro-Immigrant Bills

Foxconn Riot Flashes a Glimpse of China’s Slow-burning Labor Crisis

A Bill to Make Employers Less Mean to Pregnant Women

South Korea’s Boom Leaves Workers in the Dust

Australia Seeks to ‘Manage’ the Poor While Making Them Poorer

The Arizonification of America?

Author Jeff Biggers on whether Arizona--with its widening racial schisms--is a rogue state or a bellwether.

Occupy the Film Festival

Pakistan Fires Echo 1911 Triangle Factory Fire—But Will They Spur Similar Change?

Sickened South African Mine Workers Seek Justice in Courts

The Democrats’ Missed Opportunity

In failing to link immigrant rights and women's rights, DNC speakers overlooked how injustices interlock

Kraft Foods Bites Into Labor Struggles in Tunisia and Egypt

Reforming Welfare and Gutting the Poor: A Bipartisan Platform

Audit of Apple’s Chinese Factories Reveals Bandaid Reforms

Looking for a Good Job? Don’t Get Your Hopes Up

California Domestic Workers Ask for a Little R-E-S-P-E-C-T

A Dream Deferred?

Filipino Banana Workers Frustrated in Battle Over Dole’s Pesticides

Chinese Labor Activists Get Shut Out, But Won’t Shut Up

Research Raises More Toxic Health Concerns for Popcorn Workers

Two Years After Fatal Disaster, Push to Protect Coal Miners Wears On

HIV Risks Stalk Migrant Farmworker Communities

Restaurant Workers Target Unsavory Labor Practices at Darden

New York’s Low-Wage Workers Rally for Rights and Stir Solidarity

Criminalizing Condoms: Sex Workers Get Policed but Remain Unprotected

Olympics Labor Campaign Aims for Sweat-Free Games

Settlement for New York Home Care Workers Highlights Injustice in Labor Law

When Safety Becomes Voluntary: Workplace Self-Policing Program Under Scrutiny

Labor Activists Peer into Shadows of Apple’s Factory Empire

New Orleans Teachers Get Justice, but Schools Still Under Attack

Sex Workers and Cabbies Swept into New York’s Anti-Prostitution Dragnet

Ground Zero Workers May Get Cancer Coverage, But the Health Disaster Remains

Backdoor Talks on Trans-Pacific Trade Deal Aim to Globalize Corporatocracy

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