Holding the line : women in the great Arizona mine strike of 1983

Holding the line : women in the great Arizona mine strike of 1983 /

Novelist Barbara Kingsolver began her writing career with Holding the Line. It is the story of how women's lives were transformed by an eighteen-month strike against the Phelps-Dodge Copper Corporation. Set in the small mining towns of Arizona, the story is partly oral history and partly social...

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Main Author: Kingsolver, Barbara
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : ILR Press, 1996
Series:IRL Press Book.
Subjects:
Phelps Dodge Corporation Strike, Morenci, Ariz., 1983-
Strikes and lockouts > Copper mining > Arizona.
Women labor union members > Arizona.
Women political activists > Arizona.
Women > Arizona.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • The Devil's Domain
  • On the Line
  • Hell and high Water
  • We'll Stay Here Until We're Gone
  • Ask Any Miner
  • We Go with our Heads Up
  • Falling-Apart Things
  • My Union and My Friends
  • Women's Work
  • up to No God
  • If the Truth Would Come out
  • Just a Bunch of Ladies.

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