A topic that stood out to me while reading this chapter was female labor, especially in factories. My mother first moved to the United States when she was 17, just graduated from high school. She soon became pregnant with me, and had to work at a factory in New York City. She worked there until I was 4, because I remember visiting the factory once and being really bored in there. From what my mother told me, the experiences described in the book are accurate to what she experienced then. The first few months my mother worked there, she had suffered a lot of verbal abuse from her co-workers. They were very rude, judging her since she was quiet (due to the fact that she could not speak English very well and that she’s shy), judged her because
