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To: Amark$p who wrote (2032)	9/29/2006 1:13:24 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 10087

I recently saw a documentary on a Chinese factory that makes Mardi Gras beads. The factory seems relatively clean and modern, but no kidding about the separate dormitories for men and women, if they sneak out for trysts they get fired. Their lives are monotonous but orderly, and at young ages they are the chief breadwinners in their families. They are allowed out of the factory during a Chinese holiday that everybody takes off, and that's when they visit their parents and bring them money and toys and goodies. America used to have factories like that, a couple hundred years ago, as well as far worse ones. The "good ones", like the Lowell Mill, in Lowell, Massachusetts, employed young women right from the farms (the "Lowell Mill girls"), some as young as ten years old. They worked 12 hours a day, six days a week, and lived in dormitories where their chastity was guarded, and most were happy for the opportunities.