Holding the Line
Acclaimed fiction-writer Kingsolver (The Bean Trees, 1987); Homeland and Other Stories, p. 572) worked as a journalist covering the strike against the Phelps Dodge Copper Corporation (June 1983 to about December 1985) that shook the economic and social order in several isolated Arizona towns. Her partisan account focuses on how women - as miners, but more often as members of the Women's Auxiliary - emerged to play a major role both in the conflict and in grass-roots labor organization. There's much interesting material here about the past role of women and MexicanAmericans in the labor movement, some shockers about union-busting, and thoughtp…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8014-8389-9
- EAN: 9780801483899
- Produktnummer: 1520627
- Verlag: Cornell Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1996
- Seitenangabe: 228 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.6 cm x D1.8 cm 346 g
- Gewicht: 346
- Sonstiges: Ab 18 J.
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