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Leslie T. Chang (Chinese: 張彤禾; pinyin: Zhāng Tónghé) is a Chinese-American journalist and the author of Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China (2008). A former China correspondent for the Wall Street Journal , she has been described as "an insightful interpreter of a society in flux."
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 ...
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 ...
Factory Girls, a 2006 album by Dallas Crane "Factory Girl" (Rolling Stones song), a song by The Rolling Stones "Factory Girl" (folk song), a traditional Irish song "Factory Girl", a song by Ralph McTell on his 1969 album My Side of Your Window, later covered by Marie Little "Factory Girl", a song by The Pretty Reckless on their album Light Me Up
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The Barrymore Film Center is a publicly owned, non-profit film history museum and archive, with a 260-seat cinema and repertory theater, in Fort Lee, New Jersey. The BFC is dedicated to the role of the town as the birthplace of American cinema. It is named for the Barrymore family, members of whom lived in and worked in the borough.