Holding the Line: Women in The Great Arizona Strike of 1983

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'Nothing can be the same as it was before...Just look at us. At the beginning of this strike, we were just a bunch of ladies.'

This is the story of women's lives transformed by a single event.

Arizona, 1983: after a year of holding the picket line, a set of injunctions bar union men from striking - a loss that permanently alters the social order of these small mining towns. In a time when many women can't leave the house without their husband's permission, wives and daughters must band together to continue to picket, organise support, and defend their rights.

Part oral history and part social criticism, Holding the Line explores the process of empowerment that occurs when people - in this case the local town's female population - work together as a community.

Author Bio

Barbara Kingsolver is the global prize-winning and bestselling author of novels including Demon Copperhead, Unsheltered, Flight Behaviour, The Lacuna, The Poisonwood Bible, Animal Dreams,and The Bean Trees, as well as books of poetry, essays and creative non-fiction. Her work of narrative non-fiction is the influential bestseller Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life. Kingsolver's work has been translated into more than twenty languages and has earned literary awards and a devoted readership at home and abroad. She has won the Women's Prize for Fiction and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She lives with her family on a farm in southernAppalachia.