The last ballad:

Ella May Wiggins, a young mother desperately trying to hold her family together with the paltry nine dollars a week she earns from the textile mill two miles away, makes up her mind to join the labor union--a decision that will have lasting consequences for her children, her friends, her town, and a...

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1. Verfasser: Cash, Wiley 1977- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York, NY William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers [2017]
Ausgabe:First edition
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Zusammenfassung:Ella May Wiggins, a young mother desperately trying to hold her family together with the paltry nine dollars a week she earns from the textile mill two miles away, makes up her mind to join the labor union--a decision that will have lasting consequences for her children, her friends, her town, and all that she loves. Intertwining myriad voice, Cash brings to life the heartbreak and bravery of the now forgotten struggle of the labor movement in early twentieth-century America--and pays tribute to the thousands of heroic women and men who risked their lives to win basic rights for all workers"--
"The eagerly awaited next novel from the author of the New York Times bestselling A Land More Kind Than Home about a young mother desperately trying to hold her family together in the years before the Great Depression, a haunting and moving story of cowardice, courage and sacrifice"--
Beschreibung:Map on end papers
Beschreibung:378 Seiten Illustrationen, Karte 24 cm
ISBN:9780062313119
0062313118