The last ballad / Wiley Cash.
Momo rauemi: TextEdition: First editionWhakaahuatanga: 378 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780571340699
- Wiggins, Ella May, 1900-1929 -- Fiction
- Labor union members -- North Carolina -- Gastonia -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Textile workers -- North Carolina -- Gastonia -- Fiction
- Working mothers -- Fiction
- Textile workers -- United States -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Textile workers -- Labor unions -- Fiction
- Labor union members -- United States -- 20th century -- Fiction
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Momo tuemi | Tauwāhi onāianei | Kohinga | Tau karanga | Tūnga | Rā oti | Waeherepae | Ngā puringa tuemi | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Fiction | Stratford Fiction | Fiction | CAS (Tirotirohia te whatanga(Opens below)) | Wātea | A00819234 | |||
Fiction | Waverley LibraryPlus Fiction | Fiction | CASH (Tirotirohia te whatanga(Opens below)) | Wātea | i2178390 |
Map on end papers.
Includes bibliographical references.
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"--
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