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Liza Featherstone

 

Liza Featherstone

Liza Featherstone (born April 21 1969) is an American journalist who writes frequently on labor and student activism for the The Nation.

Featherstone was born and grew up in the vicinity of Boston. She studied at the University of Michigan in Ann Abor.

In addition to The Nation, Featherstone's writing has also appeared in Lingua Franca, San Francisco Bay Guardian, Left Business Observer, Dissent, Sydney Morning Herald, Columbia Journalism Review, New York Times, Washington Post, Newsday, In These Times, Ms, Salon, Nerve, Us, Nylon and Rolling Stone.

Featherstone has also written several books. She is the co-author of Students Against Sweatshops: The Making of a Movement (2002). In 2004, she published Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Workers' Rights at Wal-Mart, a history of Dukes vs. Wal-Mart, the largest civil rights class-action suit in history.

Featherstone lives in New York City and is married to economics journalist Doug Henwood.

Reference

Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Workers' Rights at Wal-Mart (2002) ISBN 0465023150

External links

  • Index of articles at The Nation
  • Index of articles by Liza Featherstone

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