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Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China. Spiegel & Grau. ISBN 978-0-385-52018-8. Holding Up the Sky, Sunday Book Review, The New York Times; The China Beat: Factory Girls; Factory Girls reviews; Leslie T. Chang official website; Appearances on C-SPAN. Booknotes interview with Chang on Beyond the Narrow Gate, September 12, 1999.
Bessie Van Vorst (née McGinnis; September 2, 1873 – May 19, 1928), also known as Mrs. John Van Vorst, was an American author and journalist.She is best known as a co-author of the magazine series and the book The Woman Who Toils: Being the Experiences of Two Ladies as Factory Girls (1903) with a preface by US President Theodore Roosevelt, an influential example of social investigation.
Van Vorst and her widowed sister-in-law, Bessie Van Vorst, moved to France and co-wrote novels together, including Bagsby's Daughter (1901). For The Woman Who Toils: Being the Experiences of Two Ladies as Factory Girls (1903), they went undercover at a pickle factory in Pittsburgh; a textile mill outside Buffalo, New York; a variety of sweat shops in Chicago; a shoe factory in Lynn ...
The Factory Girls is a play by Frank McGuinness. The play is about five women whose jobs at a County Donegal, Ireland, shirt factory are under threat. It features only two male characters, and these only appear in two scenes. [1] [2] The Factory Girls was first performed at the Abbey Theatre in 1982 and was the play that brought McGuinness to ...
Kat Dennings is reminiscing about her time as a “Hot Child in the City” — and the perks that came with it.. The 2 Broke Girls star joined the hosts of The View on Tuesday, Jan. 7, to talk ...
Michelle Gallen is an Irish novelist who has written fictionalised accounts of The Troubles in her comedy novels, based on her upbringing in Castlederg, near the border between Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland.
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President-elect Donald Trump was sentenced Friday in his New York criminal hush money case. But he has already pledged to appeal.