Holding the line : women in the great Arizona mine strike of 1983

Resource Information

The work Holding the line : women in the great Arizona mine strike of 1983 represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Waubonsee Community College. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Holding the line : women in the great Arizona mine strike of 1983

Title remainder

women in the great Arizona mine strike of 1983

Statement of responsibility

Barbara Kingsolver

Creator

• Kingsolver, Barbara

Subject

• Arizona
• Phelps Dodge Corporation Strike, Morenci, Ariz., 1983-
• Strikes and lockouts -- Copper mining
• Arizona -- Morenci
• Streik
• Women political activists
• Women
• Geschichte 1983-1985
• Women labor union members
• Arizona
• Phelps Dodge Corporation Strike (Morenci, Arizona : 1983- )
• Women political activists -- Arizona
• Women -- Arizona
• Strikes and lockouts -- Copper mining -- Arizona
• Bergarbeiterin
• Women labor union members -- Arizona

Language

eng

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

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

331.89/2822343/0979151

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

HD5325.M73 1983

LC item number

M675 1996

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography