Textile Spinner
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A first-person account, narrated by Pu Fu-ti of the Wusih No. 1 State Cotton Mill, of her working life as a textile worker in China. She describes child labour and harsh conditions in a filature and cotton mill before 1949, then the changes after Liberation: shorter hours, literacy classes, maternity leave, medical care and her political roles. Illustrated with photographs of the mill, historical child labourers and workers studying. The piece is a political-propaganda text from China Pictorial, with no technical weaving content.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1976
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 2
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