Factory Girls
From Village to City in a Changing China
by Leslie T. Chang · first published 2008
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An eye-opening and previously untold story, Factory Girls is the first look into the everyday lives of the migrant factory population in China.China has 130 million migrant workers--the largest migration in human history. In Factory Girls, Leslie T. Chang, a former correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in Beijing, tells the story of these workers primarily through the lives of two young women, whom she follows over the course of three years as they attempt to rise from the assembly lines of Dongguan, an industrial city in China's Pearl River Delta.As she tracks their lives, Chang paints a
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…an uneducated country girl. Her story is common. Those who never make it out of the factory? Fact of the matter is, their quality of life is still better than if they did something else. The book Factory Girls by Leslie Chang is an incredibly insightful look into the lives of these people. An incompetent government turns its potential into garbage. See Argentina, Brazil, India, and others. Each of those…
on “China congress: BBC team forced to sign confession” ↗As usual, there's always another side to the story. Why do you think these companies continue to be inundated with resumes and applicants? A good read is Factory Girls by Leslie Chang. I went to listen to a talk she gave last year on her experience at Shenzhen. She made a comment that Shenzhen is a very tough place to live. The place is very industrial and polluted.…
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