Buch
Monografie
Factory girls : from village to city in a changing China
Verfasst von:
Chang, Leslie T.
New York:
Spiegel & Grau
,
2008
,
420 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Frauensolidarität | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Chang, Leslie T. |
| Ausgabe: | 1st ed. |
| Jahr: | 2008 |
| ISBN: | 0385520174 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| China has 130 million migrant workers - the largest migration in human history. 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 as they attempt to rise from the assembly lines of Dongguan, an industrial city in Chinas Pearl River Delta. As she tracks their lives, Chang paints a picture of migrant life - a world where nearly everyone is under thirty; where you can lose 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 portrait, Chang also interweaves the story of her own familys migrations, within China and to the West, providing historical and personal frames of reference for her investigation. | |
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