Girls Of The Factory
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Girls Of The Factory
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Author : M. Laetitia Cairoli
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Release Date : 2011-06-01
Girls Of The Factory written by M. Laetitia Cairoli and has been published by University Press of Florida this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-01 with Social Science categories.
In Morocco today, the idea of female laborers is generally frowned upon. Yet despite this, many women are beginning to find work in factories. Laetitia Cairoli spent a year in the ancient city of Fes; Girls of the Factory tells the story of what life is like for working women. Forced to find a factory job herself so that she could speak more intimately with working women, she was able to learn firsthand why they work, what working means to them, and how important earning a wage is to their sense of self. Cairoli conveys a general sense of the working life of women in Morocco by describing daily life inside a Moroccan sewing factory. She also reveals the additional work they face inside their homes. More than an ethnography, this volume is also for those who want to better understand what life is like for a new generation of young women just entering the workforce.
Factory Girls
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Author : Leslie T. Chang
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2008-10-07
Factory Girls written by Leslie T. Chang and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10-07 with Social Science categories.
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 never-before-seen picture of migrant life—a world where nearly everyone is under thirty; where you can lose your boyfriend and your friends with the loss of a mobile phone; where a few computer or English lessons can catapult you into a completely different social class. Chang takes us inside a sneaker factory so large that it has its own hospital, movie theater, and fire department; to posh karaoke bars that are fronts for prostitution; to makeshift English classes where students shave their heads in monklike devotion and sit day after day in front of machines watching English words flash by; and back to a farming village for the Chinese New Year, revealing the poverty and idleness of rural life that drive young girls to leave home in the first place. Throughout this riveting portrait, Chang also interweaves the story of her own family’s migrations, within China and to the West, providing historical and personal frames of reference for her investigation. A book of global significance that provides new insight into China, Factory Girls demonstrates how the mass movement from rural villages to cities is remaking individual lives and transforming Chinese society, much as immigration to America’s shores remade our own country a century ago.
Factory Girls
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Author : Michelle Gallen
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2022-06-23
Factory Girls written by Michelle Gallen and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-23 with Fiction categories.
'The perfect pick for those missing their dose of Derry Girls' Irish Examiner 'Entertaining, touching and savagely funny' Sunday Times 'Vital, bang-on, and seriously funny' Roddy Doyle It's the summer of 1994, and all Maeve Murray wants is some money and good exam results so she can escape her shitty wee town in Northern Ireland. Over the holidays, Maeve bags herself a job at the local shirt factory with her best friends Caroline and Aoife. It's set to be the summer of their lives, but first she's got to survive a tit-for-tat paramilitary campaign as brutal as her relationship with her mam, iron 800 shirts a day to keep her job and dodge the attentions of Handy Andy Strawbridge, her slimy English boss. And when she starts to notice things aren't adding up at the factory, it seems like revealing the truth may just be her one-way ticket out of town.
The Factory Girls
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Author : Frank McGuinness
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
The Factory Girls written by Frank McGuinness and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Factories categories.
The Factory Girls
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Author : Frank McGuinness
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1982
The Factory Girls written by Frank McGuinness and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with categories.
Factory Girl Literature
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Author : Ruth Barraclough
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2012-06
Factory Girl Literature written by Ruth Barraclough and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06 with Education categories.
As millions of women and girls left country towns to generate Korea’s manufacturing boom, the factory girl emerged as an archetypal figure in twentieth-century popular culture. This book explores the factory girl in Korean literature from the 1920s to the 1990s, showing the complex ways in which she has embodied the sexual and class violence of industrial life.
Factory Girl
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Author : Barbara Greenwood
language : en
Publisher: Kids Can Press
Release Date : 2007-02-01
Factory Girl written by Barbara Greenwood and has been published by Kids Can Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-02-01 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
At the dingy, overcrowded Acme Garment Factory, Emily Watson stands for eleven hours a day clipping threads from blouses. Every time the boss passes, he shouts at her to snip faster. But if Emily snips too fast, she could ruin the garment and be docked pay. If she works too slowly, she will be fired. She desperately needs this job. Without the four dollars a week it brings, her family will starve. When a reporter arrives, determined to expose the terrible conditions in the factory, Emily finds herself caught between the desperate immigrant girls with whom she works and the hope of change. Then tragedy strikes, and Emily must decide where her loyalties lie. Emily's fictional experiences are interwoven with non-fiction sections describing family life in a slum, the fight to improve social conditions, the plight of working children then and now, and much more. Rarely seen archival photos accompany this story of the past as only Barbara Greenwood can tell it.
Factory Girl
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Author : Pamela Oldfield
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Factory Girl written by Pamela Oldfield and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Children's stories categories.
Everybody knows the sad tale of the Little Match Girl, but less well known is the story of the girls and women who slaved fourteen hours a day in the match factories for appalling pay, only to contract such fatal complaints as phossy jaw. The brutality of these conditions was brought to a head with the London Match Girls Strike of 1888. Told from the perspective of a young factory worker, this new title offers a fascinating insight into Victorian child labour.
Factory Girls
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Author : Leslie T. Chang
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2010-01-01
Factory Girls written by Leslie T. Chang and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
‘Head and shoulders above almost all other new books about China, this unflinching and yearningly compassionate portrait of the lives and loves of ordinary Chinese workers is quite unforgettable’ Simon Winchester Every year in China millions of migrant workers leave their rural towns to find jobs in the cities. These people are the driving forces behind China’s economic boom: they work very hard and for little money to make the trainers, ornaments, designer handbags and toys which we buy. Through the lives of two young women, 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. This is a powerful and humane portrait of the forces which are shaping China. ‘Astonishing . . . Heartbreaking . . . As one tool in trying to understand today’s China, this is a most valuable, if troubling read’ Irish Times ‘Engrossing . . . An exceptionally vivid and compassionate depiction of the day-to-day dramas, and the fears and aspirations, of the real people who are powering China’s economic boom’ Scotsman ‘Chang’s elegant book is evidence that the best trips home often require a circuitous approach’ Nell Freudenberger, Financial Times
The Factory Girls
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Author : Christine Seifert
language : en
Publisher: Zest Books ™
Release Date : 2019-08-01
The Factory Girls written by Christine Seifert and has been published by Zest Books ™ this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-01 with Young Adult Nonfiction categories.
The twentieth century ushered in a new world filled with a dazzling array of consumer goods. Even the poorest immigrant girls could afford a blouse or two. But these same immigrant teens toiled away in factories in appalling working conditions. Their hard work and sacrifice lined the pockets of greedy factory owners who were almost exclusively white men. The tragic Triangle Waist Factory fire in 1911 resulted in the deaths of over a hundred young people, mostly immigrant girls, who were locked in the factory. Told from the perspective of six young women who lived the story, this book reminds us why what we buy and how we vote really matter.