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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
China Labor Watchdogs Expose Dark Side of Global Toy Empire
Michelle Chen
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Foodies Get Wobbly
Food supply chain workers adopt the IWW's radical actions to fight abusive employers.
Michelle Chen
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Labor
Bangladesh Factory Fire: Workers Burn, Walmart Ducks Responsibility
Michelle Chen
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Labor
Immigrant Supply-Chain Labor Struggles Galvanize Walmart Activism
Michelle Chen
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Labor
Coal Communities at the Pivot of Dirty Industries and Clean Energy
Michelle Chen
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Labor
Post-Sandy Relief Workers Toil in Tough Labor Conditions
Michelle Chen
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Labor
Civil Rights Orgs File Complaint Over New York’s High Stakes Tests
Michelle Chen
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Labor
Bulls-Hit Ranch Labor Scandal Ensnared Florida Homeless
Michelle Chen
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Labor
In Sandy’s Wake, New York’s Landscape of Inequity Revealed
Michelle Chen
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Labor
Without Workplace Justice, Parents Have No Good Options for Sick Kids
Michelle Chen
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Labor
World Bank’s Anti-Labor Analysis Is a Dirty Business
Michelle Chen
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Labor
The Formula for ‘Equal Opportunity’: Why Affirmative Action Isn’t Enough
Michelle Chen
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Labor
Pesticide Threat Looms Large Over Farmworker Families
Michelle Chen
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Labor
$950,000 Win for NYC Workers Invigorates Supply-Chain-Justice Movement
Michelle Chen
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Labor
On Both Sides of the Border, Teachers Fight Corporatization
Michelle Chen
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Labor
From Indonesia to California, Laborers Say ‘No’ to Precarious Work
Michelle Chen
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Labor
Workers and Activists Look Ahead after Gov. Brown Vetoes Pro-Immigrant Bills
Michelle Chen
Labor
Foxconn Riot Flashes a Glimpse of China’s Slow-burning Labor Crisis
Michelle Chen
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Labor
A Bill to Make Employers Less Mean to Pregnant Women
Michelle Chen
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Labor
South Korea’s Boom Leaves Workers in the Dust
Michelle Chen
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Labor
Australia Seeks to ‘Manage’ the Poor While Making Them Poorer
Michelle Chen
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Feature
The Arizonification of America?
Author Jeff Biggers on whether Arizona--with its widening racial schisms--is a rogue state or a bellwether.
Michelle Chen
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Occupy the Film Festival
Michelle Chen
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Labor
Pakistan Fires Echo 1911 Triangle Factory Fire—But Will They Spur Similar Change?
Michelle Chen
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Labor
Sickened South African Mine Workers Seek Justice in Courts
Michelle Chen
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Feature
The Democrats’ Missed Opportunity
In failing to link immigrant rights and women's rights, DNC speakers overlooked how injustices interlock
Michelle Chen
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Labor
Kraft Foods Bites Into Labor Struggles in Tunisia and Egypt
Michelle Chen
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Labor
Reforming Welfare and Gutting the Poor: A Bipartisan Platform
Michelle Chen
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Labor
Audit of Apple’s Chinese Factories Reveals Bandaid Reforms
Michelle Chen
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Labor
Looking for a Good Job? Don’t Get Your Hopes Up
Michelle Chen
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Labor
California Domestic Workers Ask for a Little R-E-S-P-E-C-T
Michelle Chen
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Labor
A Dream Deferred?
Michelle Chen
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Labor
Filipino Banana Workers Frustrated in Battle Over Dole’s Pesticides
Michelle Chen
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Labor
Chinese Labor Activists Get Shut Out, But Won’t Shut Up
Michelle Chen
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Labor
Research Raises More Toxic Health Concerns for Popcorn Workers
Michelle Chen
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Labor
Two Years After Fatal Disaster, Push to Protect Coal Miners Wears On
Michelle Chen
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Labor
HIV Risks Stalk Migrant Farmworker Communities
Michelle Chen
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Labor
Restaurant Workers Target Unsavory Labor Practices at Darden
Michelle Chen
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Labor
New York’s Low-Wage Workers Rally for Rights and Stir Solidarity
Michelle Chen
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Labor
Criminalizing Condoms: Sex Workers Get Policed but Remain Unprotected
Michelle Chen
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Labor
Olympics Labor Campaign Aims for Sweat-Free Games
Michelle Chen
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Labor
Settlement for New York Home Care Workers Highlights Injustice in Labor Law
Michelle Chen
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Labor
When Safety Becomes Voluntary: Workplace Self-Policing Program Under Scrutiny
Michelle Chen
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Labor Activists Peer into Shadows of Apple’s Factory Empire
Michelle Chen
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New Orleans Teachers Get Justice, but Schools Still Under Attack
Michelle Chen
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Sex Workers and Cabbies Swept into New York’s Anti-Prostitution Dragnet
Michelle Chen
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Ground Zero Workers May Get Cancer Coverage, But the Health Disaster Remains
Michelle Chen
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Backdoor Talks on Trans-Pacific Trade Deal Aim to Globalize Corporatocracy
Michelle Chen