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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Factory Girls Factory Girls Leslie T. Chang 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 migra… OL11892758W
The anxieties of mobility The anxieties of mobility Johan A. Lindquist Since the late 1960s the Indonesian island of Batam has been transformed from a sleepy fishing village to a booming frontier town, where foreign investment, mostly from neighboring Singapore, converg… OL11989445W
Factory girls Factory girls Leslie T. Chang 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, … OL15569186W
Mill Girls and Strangers Mill Girls and Strangers Wendy M. Gordon "In the nineteenth-century mill towns of Preston, England; Lowell, Massachusetts; and Paisley, Scotland, there were specific demands for migrant and female labor, and potential employers provided the… OL8358706W