A contrast

Take a look at David Barboza's account of a Chinese worker:

Yun Liu, a 23-year-old woman from the countryside...shares a cramped house with her sister and eight other women who work in a factory. All the women are from her hometown, Siyang, about four hours north of here...

Four years ago, Ms. Yun came here to work in this bustling factory town about two hours north of Shanghai at one of China's largest textile mills, the Huafang Cotton Weaving Company. Huafang's 30,000 employees are mostly young women who were lured here from small villages in the Chinese countryside.

Like most of the women at Huafang, Ms. Yun came here right after high school, intending to work a few years and save money, before returning home to get married...

Millions of poor men and women like Ms. Yun and her friends have been willing to migrate to factory cities like this one, where starting salaries are little more than $4 a day.

Compare this with Ariel Hart's account of an American textile worker:

She needed to leave high school to support her two toddlers...

She has been thinking of taking computer classes nearby, but it would be hard to leave town for a computer job elsewhere, even to move an hour south to Atlanta.

Emphasis mine. The Chinese woman goes to a city far from home before she gets pregnant, while the American gets pregnant before graduating high school and refuses to relocate.