{"product_id":"factory-girls-9780385520188","title":"Factory Girls","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn eye-opening and previously untold story, \u003ci\u003eFactory Girls\u003c\/i\u003e is the first look into the everyday lives of the migrant factory population in China.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChina has 130 million migrant workers—the largest migration in human history. In \u003ci\u003eFactory Girls\u003c\/i\u003e, Leslie T. Chang, a former correspondent for the\u003ci\u003e Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs 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 ow","brand":"Random House USA Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49401957613911,"sku":"9780385520188","price":19.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/factory-girls-9780385520188","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}