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false <![CDATA[Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China ]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255699155m/2635587.jpg 2635587 6 China has more than 114 million migrant workers, which represents the largest migration in human history. But while these workers, who leave their rural towns to find jobs in China’s cities, are the driving force behind China’s growing economy, little is known about their day-to-day lives or the sociological significance of this massive movement. In Factory Girls, Leslie T. Chang tells the story of these workers primarily through the lives of two young women whom she follows over the course of three years. Chang vividly portrays a world where you can lose your boyfriend and your friends with the loss of a cell phone; where lying about your age, your education, and your work experience is often a requisite for getting ahead; where a few computer or English lessons can catapult you into a completely different social class. Throughout this affecting portrait of migrant life, Chang also interweaves the story of her own family’s migrations, within China and to the West, providing a historical frame of reference for her investigation. At a time when the Olympics will have shifted the world’s focus to China, Factory Girls offers a previously untold story about the immense population of unknown women who work countless hours, often in hazardous conditions, to provide us with the material goods we take for granted. A book of global significance, it demonstrates how the movement from rural villages to cities is remaking individual lives and the fates of families, transforming our world much as immigration to America’s shores remade our own society a century ago. 2660297 7 10 2008 Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China total:323|5:58|4:146|3:95|2:19|1:5| 323 1202 883 142 5 1 false false Thu Sep 03 04:20:39 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 11 06:57:47 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 03 04:20:39 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Nov 30 07:22:14 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 05 06:01:36 -0800 2009
These girls leave home as young as 14 and are hired at talent markets so they don't even see the conditions of the factory until ...more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Jan 30 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 30 15:16:19 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 30 15:23:16 -0800 2009 more...]]> 1 2 false false Tue Jan 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 24 09:56:19 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 07 12:04:21 -0800 2009 The way it jumped from one thing to another with no transition beyond some extra space on the page was quite disorienting. (E.g., one section ended with a statement about an old relative laying in bed waiting to die and the nex...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Mar 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 23 19:25:24 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 23 20:14:52 -0700 2009 The story turns out to be a bit different than the preconceived notion also.

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Other writers have chronicled the exploitation of China's migrant workers, whose dirt-cheap labour provides most of the leisure and electronic goods which fuelled our credit boom. Chang's brilliant book Factory Girls als...more...]]> 3 1 false false Tue Apr 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 14 16:44:35 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 14 16:53:16 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri May 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 03 13:07:43 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 05 10:03:45 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false true Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 10 18:18:57 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 12 23:02:38 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Nov 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Oct 22 18:44:18 -0700 2009 Sun Nov 08 10:26:14 -0800 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Wed Aug 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 26 13:34:35 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 26 13:35:24 -0700 2009
Wall Street Journal reporter Leslie T. Chang effectively drops her reader into the life of the “factory girls,” young Chinese women who leave their villages and families for the province of Dongguan - a city of factories where everything from Coach to Nike is made. Foc...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jan 08 06:00:20 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 08 06:00:20 -0800 2009 Factory Girls will open many eyes, particularly in her in-depth profiles of young women wh...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Aug 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 04 22:37:01 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 04 22:45:40 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Aug 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 27 08:39:23 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 27 08:53:00 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Mar 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 08 12:54:30 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 08 13:00:51 -0700 2009
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