Clarkesworld PodcastApril 2012: The Womb Factory (Peter M. Ferenczi)

[james_davis_nicoll]

The Womb Factory (Peter M. Ferenczi)

Read by Kate Baker

A Chinese woman, tricked into working at a black factory, struggles to use the meager resources at her disposal to find an escape or at least report to the work how she and others are being used.

You know, it seems to me that the production methods being used shouldn't have to use people. In fact, it seems like logically the original system would be set up to make it harder to use people than some expendable species.

Comments

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

That said, I was just reading an article somewhere about Edwardian England and how they stuck with using legions of ill-paid servants because of how that fed in class and self-image issues in that backward society.

I seem to recall a claim that an Edwardian maid could be expected to shift three tons of water a week. Which seems extreme and also, now that I think about it, Google-able. (http://www.salon.com/2013/11/24/servants_behind_the_scenes_at_real_life_downton_abbeys/)