Holding the Line : Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983 /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kingsolver, Barbara
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : ILR Press, 1996.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Streik
Bergarbeiterin
Women political activists.
Women labor union members.
Women.
Strikes and lockouts > Copper mining.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
Femmes activistes > Arizona.
Greves et lock-out > Cuivre, Mines de > Arizona.
Greve de la Phelps Dodge Corporation, Morenci, Ariz, 1983.
Women > Arizona.
Women political activists > Arizona.
Women labor union members > Arizona.
Strikes and lockouts > Copper mining > Arizona.
Phelps Dodge Corporation Strike, Morenci, Ariz., 1983-
Arizona
Arizona > Morenci.
Arizona.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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 criticism, exploring the process of empowerment which occurs when people work together as a community.
Item Description:"With a new introduction."
Originally published: Ithaca, NY : ILR Press, 1989.
Physical Description:1 online resource (256 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780801465178

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