打工女孩: 从乡村到城市的变动中国

Going out"", this is the simple definition migrant workers use to define their migrant life. I have nothing to do at home, so I go out"". This is the beginning of countless migration stories. So far, China has 150 million migrant works. In southern cities with great numbers of factories, migrant works are doing their best on the production line to drive the countrys export economy. They represent the largest-scale migration of population in human history, the number of which is three times of the people migrated from Europe to the US for more than a hundred years. When the new generation migrant workers appeared, most people believe migration is a way for better life. They are younger than their previous generation, got better education, and their motivation for going out is for pursuit in the opportunities of cities, not forced by poverty in the countryside. It is dignity, not fear that keeps them in the city. Going out from the hometown and stay outside, going out is to change your life. The stories of migrant female workers have some in common. They are easy to lose themselves in the factory. Hundreds of girls with similar background, they are born in rural areas, uneducated and poor. It does not matter what they do in the factory, what matters is the hardship or opportunity brought by that work. The turning points of migrant female workerss life are when their bosses find fault in them. And that moment she may risk losing all or stand out from the group and force the world to see her as an individual. In China, migration has a history of more than 20 years, many foreign media reported about the terrible working environment in factories, and many domestic books about farmers are not real. The author wants to write something different, like what migrant workers feel about their migration work, especially the girls. They may gain the most or lose the most from their migration work.