Daisy Pitkin

Broschiertes Buch

On the Line

Two Women's Epic Fight to Build a Union

Beschreibung

The beautifully told, dramatic story of two dedicated women, a labor organizer and an immigrant laundry worker, coming together to spearhead an audacious campaign to unionize one of the most dangerous industries in one of the most anti-union states--Arizona--and offering a nuanced look at the modern-day labor movement and the future of workers' rights.

Autor

Daisy Pitkin has spent more than twenty years as a community and union organizer, working first in support of garment workers around the world, and then for U.S. labor unions organizing industrial laundry workers. Her essays have been awarded the Montana Prize, the DISQUIET Literary Prize, the New Millennium Award, and the Monique Wittig Writer’s Scholarship. She grew up in rural Ohio and received an MFA from the University of Arizona. Pitkin lives and writes in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where she works as an organizer with an offshoot of the union UNITE. Find her at daisypitkin.net.  

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Little Brown and Company
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. April 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 209mm x 141mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 231g
• ISBN-13: 9781643753393
• ISBN-10: 1643753398
• Artikelnr.: 63935104