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Holding the Line

by Barbara Kingsolver

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Holding the Line

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Clifton, Arizona, USA

Morenci, Arizona, USA

Ajo, Arizona, USA

Douglas, Arizona, USA

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Great Arizona Copper Mine Strike of 1983

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Epigraph

"No nation is greater than its women" --Mother Jones

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For the families who held the line, and those who will have to do it again

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Flossie Navarro is a sturdy woman, strong-boned and handsome, with a lightness in her bearing that has stood up to some seventy years of a rock-hard life. Those years have neither dulled her mind nor dented her will.

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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.

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