Liza Featherstone
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Liza Featherstone (born April 21, 1969) is an American journalist who writes frequently on labor and student activism for The Nation.
Featherstone was born and grew up in the vicinity of Boston. She studied at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
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.com, 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. They have a son, Ivan, born New Year's Day 2006.
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Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Workers' Rights at Wal-Mart (2002) ISBN 0-465-02315-0
