Journalist Michelle Chen reports on the labor conditions of Miami's hotel housekeepers - from the increasing demands of management-imposed piecework, to the necessity of enduring physical and sexual harassment from hotel guests - and explains why the built-in economic precarity of hotel workers is being worsened by managment's use of guest workers to skirt domestic labor laws, and our own blindness to the conditions of our fellow workers.

Michelle wrote the article Spring Break’s Cleanup Crew for Slate.