异化与抗争：中国女工工作史研究，ISBN：9787500440512，作者：佟新著

中國，從1978年開發改革，農民進入城市工作，成為了不可檔的趨勢，這些農民後被稱為民工，他們遍佈於工廠、餐廳、建築工地、運輸業、幫傭保姆、垃圾工、理髮店、和妓院。 東莞，這座印刻著太多標籤的城市，是很多進城民工第一首選，每年有數以百萬計的打工妹行走在矛盾鋒刃上，從農村進入到城市，從挑剔的人才市場到忙碌的生產車間，從擁擠雜亂的出租屋到名目繁多的培訓機構，從燈紅酒綠的夜總會到幻想發財的傳銷窩點穿梭，女孩們追逐著夢想，但卻不知他們在追逐夢想的同時，他們的夢也正一步一步的走向幻滅….. 「工廠女孩」，為美籍華人女記者LESILE T. CHANG（張彤禾）於2004年至2007年間在東莞暗訪三年，深入接觸了以敏和春明為代表打工女孩，見證了她們夢想的萌芽與破滅，記錄下了中國工業化時代驚心動魄的一幕幕不為人知的故，剖析鮮為人知的中國…….

1990年代，城市的第一支柱产业悄然更迭，上海纺织业走到了破釜沉舟的破局时分，杨树浦的一家纺织工人，亦走到了各自命运的分岔口。 女工们的工作价值，已经被否定，曾经的工作与每个人的气质或互相抵牾，或互相激励，都随着下岗而瞬间消亡。人们希望自己从事的工作所代表的价值观在何处？真正的价值在于，下岗给了这个城市和城市里的人一次再生。那些1990年代的上海纺织工人的故事，再就业或不再就业，各种生活状态——生机勃勃，勤奋，隐忍，或者投机，人性或有悖于人性，理想主义者的内心经历毁灭和重生的过程，值得寻找的是普通人生的审美价值。 《女红》令我们重返粗粝的青春现场，重温生涩而绽放的感情，回望特殊年代的上海记忆，重塑被遮蔽的城市场景，唤醒朴素而叹息着的过往生活……——孙甘露 饮食男女，一丝一缕。程小莹的笔下，他们如做女红般地生活，触手皆故事，冷暖寸心知。——陈村 作者一贯如此，叙事不进入已固定的上海趣味，只表露另一副生存肌理与城市面孔，使读者难忘。——金宇澄 上海爷叔才能写出来的小说，既市井又潇洒，活灵活现地再现了一种上个时代我所不拥有的记忆。 ——周嘉宁

當打工妹滿懷憧憬地來到城市以後，她們常常面對的是︰日復一日的超時加班，頭班病和工傷的威脅，拖欠工資和人身侮辱，還要面對城市的冷漠與歧視。然而，她們不知道該如何維護自己的合法權益，即使抗爭，往往也難以取得全面勝利。 可她們為什麼還不斷地涌向城市？為什麼進城了，又回鄉，回鄉了，又進城？進城務工僅僅是為了增加一點收入，或是開開眼界？ 有一點可以肯定，那就是城市的繁榮離不開打工妹辛勤的汗水，因此，就不該讓她們再付出辛酸的淚水﹗

An eye-opening and previously untold story, Factory Girls is the first look into the everyday lives of the migrant factory population in China. China has 130 million migrant workers—the largest migration in human history. In Factory Girls, Leslie T. Chang, a former correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in Beijing, tells the story of these workers primarily through the lives of two young women, whom she follows over the course of three years as they attempt to rise from the assembly lines of Dongguan, an industrial city in China’s Pearl River Delta. As she tracks their lives, Chang paints a never-before-seen picture of migrant life—a world where nearly everyone is under thirty; where you can lose your boyfriend and your friends with the loss of a mobile phone; where a few computer or English lessons can catapult you into a completely different social class. Chang takes us inside a sneaker factory so large that it has its own hospital, movie theater, and fire department; to posh karaoke bars that are fronts for prostitution; to makeshift English classes where students shave their heads in monklike devotion and sit day after day in front of machines watching English words flash by; and back to a farming village for the Chinese New Year, revealing the poverty and idleness of rural life that drive young girls to leave home in the first place. Throughout this riveting portrait, Chang also interweaves the story of her own family’s migrations, within China and to the West, providing historical and personal frames of reference for her investigation. A book of global significance that provides new insight into China,Factory Girls demonstrates how the mass movement from rural villages to cities is remaking individual lives and transforming Chinese society, much as immigration to America’s shores remade our own country a century ago.