Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-199) and index.
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.
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.
