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Interview
Leslie Chang discusses Factory Girls, in which she reports on her three years following the lives of women living in one of China's factory cities.
There's been a lot written in recent years on the sweatshop conditions inside Chinese factories.
Yet in Factory Girls, you describe a job on the assembly line in terms of adventure, opportunity, even liberation.
This work of fiction explores the life of a “dew breaker”—a torturer—a man whose brutal past in Haiti lies hidden beneath his the new life he found in America.
Doesn't this contradict the reality of factory life?
Certainly conditions in the factories are tough. Most of the young women I got to know while researching this book worked thirteen hours a day, seven days a week when they first started out.
Their wages were often late; many had no idea how much they would be paid from month to month, because the factory charged fees for all sorts of things over which they had no control. But you have to remember that the world looks very different when you're coming from a Chinese farming village.
What we think of as mis