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Like Kingsolver's award-winning novels, Holding the Line is a beautifully written book grounded on the strength of its characters. After more than a year the strikers lost their union certification, but the battle permanently altered the social order in these small, predominantly Hispanic mining towns.

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Condition	Brand New
ISBN	9780801483899
Book Title	Holding the Line : Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983
Publisher	Cornell University Press
Item Length	9 in
Publication Year	1996
Format	Trade Paperback
Language	English
Illustrator	Yes
Item Height	0.5 in
Author	Barbara Kingsolver
Features	Revised
Genre	Political Science, Technology & Engineering, Social Science, History
Topic	Mining, Labor & Industrial Relations, United States / State & Local / Southwest (Az, NM, Ok, Tx), Women's Studies
Item Weight	16 Oz
Item Width	6 in
Number of Pages	228 Pages

Holding the Line : Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983, Paperback by Kingsolver, Barbara, ISBN 0801483891, ISBN-13 9780801483899, Brand New, Free shipping in the USHolding 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 order in these small, predominantly Hispanic mining towns. At the time the strike began, many women said they couldn't leave the house without their husband's permission. Yet, when injunctions barred union men from picketing, their wives and daughters turned out for the daily picket lines. When the strike dragged on and men left to seek jobs elsewhere, women continued to picket, organize support, and defend their rights even when the towns were occupied by the National Guard. "Nothing can ever be the same as it was before," said Diane McCormick of the Morenci Miners Women's Auxiliary. "Look at us. At the beginning of this strike, we were just a bunch of ladies."