15 results for "Factory Girls, Leslie T. Chang, Book" between $0 and $65

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...

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Description In FACTORY GIRLS: FROM VILLAGE TO CITY IN A CHANGING CHINA, Leslie Chang, a former Wall Street Journal reporter assigned to Beijing, shows us the human underside of the Chinese economic transformation. She follows the lives of two young migrant factory workers as they navigate a world where upward mobility is close to a contact sport. Part of the mass migration--the largest in human history--from peasant farming villages to Pearl River factories, these women struggle to move up from the...

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...

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Description Chronicles the everyday world of female Chinese migrant workers who have left their homes in rural towns to find jobs in China's cities, as revealed through a two-year study of the lives of two young women, and assesses the significance and influence of this movement. A New York Times Notable Book. Reprint. In FACTORY GIRLS: FROM VILLAGE TO CITY IN A CHANGING CHINA, Leslie Chang, a former Wall Street Journal reporter assigned to Beijing, shows us the human underside of the Chinese economic...

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By Nat Finkelstein, David Dalton. She was riveting to look at, a sprite of the zeitgeist, the living distillation of the over-amped vision of New York in the mid-sixties. Like many exotic creatures that Andy Warhol shed his light on, she initially bloomed—became the symbol for all that was hip and stylish—and just as quickly began to disintegrate. Told with unsparing candor and with candid images that capture her at the peak of her Factory stardom, Edie Factory Girl is the short but enduring cultural...

"Factory Girls" offers a previously untold story about the immense population of unknown women who work countless hours, often in hazardous conditions, to provide the West with material goods.

No one wants to be labeled a whiner, but many of us go through life with a "poor me," victim mentality that sounds a whole lot like whining. God never intended for us to act like "little girls," says Jan Silvious. His goal is for each of us to live as "big girls"-mature Christian women-who are capable of enjoying the richness of life He has planned.