Holding the Line
Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983
Holding the Line, Barbara Kingsolver's first non-fiction book, is the story of women's lives transformed by an a signal event. Set in the small mining towns of Arizona, it is part oral history and part social criticism, exploring the process of empowerment which occurs when people work together as a community. Like Kingsolver's award-winning novels, Holding the Line is a beautifully written book grounded on the strength of its characters.Hundreds of families held the line in the 1983 strike against Phelps Dodge Copper in Arizona. After more than a year the strikers lost their union certification, but the battle permanently altered the social…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-8014-6509-3
- EAN: 9780801465093
- Produktnummer: 23653284
- Verlag: Cornell University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 228 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'217 KB
- Abbildungen: 8 halftones
- Sonstiges: Ab 18 J.
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Barbara Kingsolver
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