L a factory girls book

Toward the end of factory girls, her engrossing account of the lives of young migrant workers in southern china, leslie chang describes. The factory girls are treated very harshly and watched constantly. In the pages of this book, these factory girls come to life. When roshen, a 16yearold uighur girl from northern china, is sent away for a year to work at the hubei work wear company, a factory in the south, she faces cultural, societal, physical, and psychological challenges far beyond her worst nightmares. Sustained by her bond with other uyghur girls, roshen is resolved to endure all to help her family and ultimately her people. An eyeopening and previously untold story, factory girls is the first look into the everyday lives of the. This is a book of fiction but it is a story about girls in the northern part of china who are forced to work in chinese factories.

Changs deeply affecting book tells the story of the invisible foot soldiers who. Attempts to escape could lead to being sent to a reeducation center or prison. Factory girl is a decent film on the life of edie sedgwick and her work with andy warhol. Factory girls is a nonfiction look at young women in china who leave their rural homes in order to forge a better life in the factory boomtowns of their country. The book provides details of the muslim culture and how roshen and other uyghur. From village to city in a changing china, former wall street journal reporter leslie t. Mark russell, who interviewed lee for his 2008 book. China has more than 114 million migrant workers, which represents th. By delving so deeply into the lives of her subjects, chang succeeds in exploring the degree to which chinas factory girls are exploited working grueling hours in. By delving so deeply into the lives of her subjects, chang succeeds in exploring the degree to which chinas factory girls are exploited working grueling hours in sometimes poor conditions. Chang explores this boom thats simultaneously emptying chinas villages of young people and fueling its economic growth. This part of the story is true based on the authors understanding of working in these sweat shops. The film should have been better considering the subject, but for what it is, its a watchable film, but. Dial painting was the elite job for the poor working girls.

Toward the end of factory girls, her engrossing account of the lives of young migrant workers in southern china, leslie chang describes receiving a gift. Chang, a former correspondent for the wall street journal in beijing, tells. From village to city in a changing china chang, leslie t. The employment of women in a factory was novel to the point of being revolutionary. As the book shows, the life in the big city is not always what its cracked up to be for these young women.