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# Factory Girls
> Leslie T. Chang
I enjoyed this book, it made real a world which I'd never contemplated the reality of before. Chang's perspective humanizes a group of people usually represented simplistically by Western media. Rather than desperate, poverty-stricken vagabonds one might first assume teenagers working in factories might be, she tells a story of enterprising youths who are trying to make their place in the world, in what is a very Western-style individualistic enterprise.
* migrants' acquity shifts power balance with their elders
* factory english, pyramid schemes
* self-reinvention