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Factory Girl

Author : Barbara Greenwood
Publisher : Kids Can Press
ISBN 13 : 9781553376491
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (764 download)

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Download or read book Factory Girl written by Barbara Greenwood and published by Kids Can Press. This book was released on 2007-02-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Girls

Author : Leslie T. Chang
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0385520182
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)

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Download or read book Factory Girls written by Leslie T. Chang and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-08-04 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : Michelle Gallen
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1643753479
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (437 download)

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Download or read book Factory Girls written by Michelle Gallen and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2022-11-29 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A funny, fierce, and unforgettable read about a young woman working a summer job in a shirt factory in Northern Ireland, while tensions rise both inside and outside the factory walls. Winner of the Comedy Women in Print 2022-23 Published Novel Award It’s the summer of 1994, and all smart-mouthed Maeve Murray wants are good final exam results so she can earn her ticket out of the wee Northern Irish town she has grown up in during the Troubles. She hopes she will soon be in London studying journalism—away from her crowded home, the silence and sadness surrounding her sister’s death, and most of all, away from the violence of her divided community. As a first step, Maeve’s taken a job in a shirt factory working alongside Protestants with her best friends. But getting the right exam results is only part of Maeve’s problem—she’s got to survive a tit-for-tat paramilitary campaign, iron 100 shirts an hour all day every day, and deal with the attentions of Handy Andy Strawbridge, her slick and untrustworthy English boss. Then, as the British loyalist marching season raises tensions among the Catholic and Protestant workforce, Maeve realizes something is going on behind the scenes at the factory. What seems to be a great opportunity to earn money turns out to be a crucible in which Maeve faces the test of a lifetime. Seeking justice for herself and her fellow workers may just be Maeve’s one-way ticket out of town. Bitingly hilarious, clear-eyed, and steeped in the vernacular of its time and place, Factory Girls tackles questions of wealth and power, religion and nationalism, and how young women maintain hope for themselves and the future during divided, violent times. Shortlisted for the 2023 Royal Society of Literature Encore Award (for second novels) and the Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize

Factory Girl

Author : Josanne La Valley
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 054469953X
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (446 download)

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Download or read book Factory Girl written by Josanne La Valley and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-01-10 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In order to save her family’s farm, Roshen, sixteen, must leave her rural home to work in a factory in the south of China. There she finds arduous and degrading conditions and contempt for her minority (Uyghur) background. Sustained by her bond with other Uyghur girls, Roshen is resolved to endure all to help her family and ultimately her people. A workplace survival story, this gritty, poignant account focuses on a courageous teen and illuminates the value—and cost—of freedom.

The Factory Girls

Author : Christine Seifert
Publisher : Zest Books ™
ISBN 13 : 1541579623
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (415 download)

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Download or read book The Factory Girls written by Christine Seifert and published by Zest Books ™. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Factory Girl Literature

Author : Ruth Barraclough
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520289765
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Factory Girl Literature written by Ruth Barraclough and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Mr Manchester and the Factory Girl

Author : Lindsay Reade
Publisher : Plexus Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0859658759
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Mr Manchester and the Factory Girl written by Lindsay Reade and published by Plexus Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-15 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic tale of sex, drugs, and rock'n'roll, this heartfelt and searingly honest memoir details the relationship between Tony Wilson (the legendary impresario behind Factory Records, Joy Division, New Order and the Happy Mondays) and his first wife, Lindsay Reade.

Factory Girls

Author : Takako Arai
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780900575846
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (758 download)

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Download or read book Factory Girls written by Takako Arai and published by . This book was released on 2019-11 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. Women's Studies. Translated by Jeffrey Angles, Jen Crawford, Carol Hayes, Rina Kikuchi, You Sakai, Sawako Nakayaso. This first English-language volume from Japanese poet, performer and publisher Takako Arai collects engaging, rhythmically intense narrative poems set in the silk weaving factory where Arai grew up. FACTORY GIRLS depicts the secretive yet bold world of the women workers as well as the fate of these kinds of regional, feminine, collaborative spaces in a current-day Japan defined by such corporate and climate catastrophes as the rise of Uniqlo and the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster.

Girl Factory

Author : Karen Dietrich
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493000659
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Girl Factory written by Karen Dietrich and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s 1985 in a small factory town near Pittsburgh. Eight-year-old Karen’s parents are lifelong workers at the Anchor Glass plant, where one Saturday, an employee goes on a shooting spree, killing four supervisors, then himself. This event splits the young girl’s life open, and like her mother, she begins to seek comfort in obsessive rituals and superstitions. This beautifully evocative memoir chronicles the next fourteen years, as Karen moves through girlhood, adolescence, and young adulthood. It illuminates small-town factory life; explores a complicated mother-daughter bond; thoughtfully unfolds a smart, but insecure girl’s coming of age; achingly recounts her attempts to use sex to fit in; and ultimately uncovers the buried secret from her childhood—a medical file with an unbearable report. The Girl Factory deftly travels the intersections of memory and origin. Karen’s body remembers details her mind has tried to control. As the young woman mines her interior landscape for answers, certain questions persist. Where does memory live—in the body or the mind? And can you rewrite the story of your past?

Girl Factory

Author : Jim Krusoe
Publisher : Tin House Books
ISBN 13 : 0979419824
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (794 download)

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Download or read book Girl Factory written by Jim Krusoe and published by Tin House Books. This book was released on 2008-04-28 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There’s a disturbing secret in the basement of a strip mall yogurt parlor. Jonathan, the mostly clueless clerk who works there, just wants to fix things once and for all, but beginning with an encounter at an animal shelter that leaves three dead, things don’t work out quite the way Jonathan intends . . . or do they? Beneath its picaresque surface,Girl Factoryraises unsettling questions about storytelling, the nature of freedom, and the ubiquitous objectification of women.

Edie, Factory Girl

Author : Nat Finkelstein
Publisher : powerHouse Books
ISBN 13 : 9781576873465
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (734 download)

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Download or read book Edie, Factory Girl written by Nat Finkelstein and published by powerHouse Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 story of Edie Sedgwick--releasing in time for the film of the same name starring Slenna Miller, and including rare photos of Miller as Edie. David Dalton was just a teen when he became one of Warhol's first assistants, and was present for the arrival of Edie: witnessing her rise, her Factory superstardom, and subsequent unraveling. Like an anthropologist thrown together with a tribe of "wild" people, Nat Finkelstein entered the Factory just as Warhol was emerging as the supreme catalyst of the sixties. Among the freaky menagerie, Nat found Andy's misbegotten princess the most fascinating and enigmatic character of her time, and with a compassionate lens recorded her fragile, fleeting beauty. Edie Factory Girl is a privileged glimpse into Warhol's inner sanctum, via revealing interviews with intimates, friends, and scenesters, in which Edie orbits around the likes of Bob Dylan, Salvador Dali, Betsey Johnson, Lou Reed, Judy Garland, and many more, before departing as quickly as she came.

The Factory Girl

Author : Ariel Ivers Cummings
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Factory Girl written by Ariel Ivers Cummings and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Factory Girl

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book The Factory Girl written by and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Factory Girl

Author : A. I. (Ariel Ivers) Cummings
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781290004817
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book The Factory Girl written by A. I. (Ariel Ivers) Cummings and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Factory Girl

Author : Barbara Greenwood
Publisher : Kids Can Press
ISBN 13 : 9781553376484
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (764 download)

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The Factory Girl

Author : A. I. Cummings
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781330479377
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (793 download)

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Download or read book The Factory Girl written by A. I. Cummings and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-29 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Factory Girl: Or Gardez La C ur They parted - and a mutual kiss Their vows had sealed for future bliss; While Hope's bright beacon lent its ray, And bore Affection's sigh away! Never, perhaps, did the "Manchester of America," though renowned for the moral and intellectual worth of its inhabitants, and especially its Female Operatives, bear within its limits a nobler, more pure, and worthy soul, than that which caused the heart of Calliste Barton to beat, in her humble sphere. In saying this, it is no disparagement to any one, as we trust the following pages will show. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."

Factory Girl

Author : Pamela Oldfield
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781407116723
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (167 download)

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Download or read book Factory Girl written by Pamela Oldfield and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.