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
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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