Presents an account of the dramatic and ultimately disastrous 1983 miners strike against the Phelps Dodge company in Arizona, all told against the backdrop of the uneasy relations between the company and the mine-workers' unions going back to 1903. This edition also describes th…
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 a…
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 a…