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Leslie T. Chang: Factory Girls : From Village to City in a Changing China (2008) No rating

Chapter 4 - The Talent Market Min and her friends have some time off, get together, but most leisure activities cost money. She is working in a office, socially and financially higher than the assembly line. Describes the Talent Market - and omnipresent discrimination on the basis of gender, appearance, age, home province etc. In 2004 her mobile phone and savings are stolen from a hotel room, loosing all her contacts, the friendships of a year and half are gone.