Factory Girl
Title | Factory Girl PDF eBook |
Author | Barbara Greenwood |
Publisher | Kids Can Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2007-02-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9781553376491 |
At the dingy, overcrowded Acme Garment Factory, Emily Watson stands for eleven hours a day clipping threads from blouses. Every time the boss passes, he shouts at her to snip faster. But if Emily snips too fast, she could ruin the garment and be docked pay. If she works too slowly, she will be fired. She desperately needs this job. Without the four dollars a week it brings, her family will starve. When a reporter arrives, determined to expose the terrible conditions in the factory, Emily finds herself caught between the desperate immigrant girls with whom she works and the hope of change. Then tragedy strikes, and Emily must decide where her loyalties lie. Emily's fictional experiences are interwoven with non-fiction sections describing family life in a slum, the fight to improve social conditions, the plight of working children then and now, and much more. Rarely seen archival photos accompany this story of the past as only Barbara Greenwood can tell it.
Factory Girl Literature
Title | Factory Girl Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Ruth Barraclough |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 197 |
Release | 2012-06 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 0520289765 |
As millions of women and girls left country towns to generate Korea’s manufacturing boom, the factory girl emerged as an archetypal figure in twentieth-century popular culture. This book explores the factory girl in Korean literature from the 1920s to the 1990s, showing the complex ways in which she has embodied the sexual and class violence of industrial life.
Factory Girl
Title | Factory Girl PDF eBook |
Author | Josanne La Valley |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Pages | 285 |
Release | 2017-01-10 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 054469953X |
In order to save her family’s farm, Roshen, sixteen, must leave her rural home to work in a factory in the south of China. There she finds arduous and degrading conditions and contempt for her minority (Uyghur) background. Sustained by her bond with other Uyghur girls, Roshen is resolved to endure all to help her family and ultimately her people. A workplace survival story, this gritty, poignant account focuses on a courageous teen and illuminates the value—and cost—of freedom.
Factory Girl
Title | Factory Girl PDF eBook |
Author | Barbara Greenwood |
Publisher | Kids Can Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2007-02-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9781553376484 |
At the dingy, overcrowded Acme Garment Factory, Emily Watson stands for eleven hours a day clipping threads from blouses. Every time the boss passes, he shouts at her to snip faster. But if Emily snips too fast, she could ruin the garment and be docked pay. If she works too slowly, she will be fired. She desperately needs this job. Without the four dollars a week it brings, her family will starve. When a reporter arrives, determined to expose the terrible conditions in the factory, Emily finds herself caught between the desperate immigrant girls with whom she works and the hope of change. Then tragedy strikes, and Emily must decide where her loyalties lie. Emily's fictional experiences are interwoven with non-fiction sections describing family life in a slum, the fight to improve social conditions, the plight of working children then and now, and much more. Rarely seen archival photos accompany this story of the past as only Barbara Greenwood can tell it.
The Factory Girl
Title | The Factory Girl PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1830 |
Genre | Women |
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Factory Girl
Title | Factory Girl PDF eBook |
Author | Pamela Oldfield |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Children's stories |
ISBN | 9781407116723 |
Everybody knows the sad tale of the Little Match Girl, but less well known is the story of the girls and women who slaved fourteen hours a day in the match factories for appalling pay, only to contract such fatal complaints as phossy jaw. The brutality of these conditions was brought to a head with the London Match Girls Strike of 1888. Told from the perspective of a young factory worker, this new title offers a fascinating insight into Victorian child labour.
The Factory Girl
Title | The Factory Girl PDF eBook |
Author | Ariel Ivers Cummings |
Publisher | |
Pages | 184 |
Release | 1847 |
Genre | American fiction |
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