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The last ballad / Wiley Cash.

Cash, Wiley, (author.).

Summary:

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"-- Adapted from publisher information.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0062670735
  • ISBN: 9780062670731
  • Physical Description: 579 pages ; 23 cm
  • Edition: First HarperLuxe edition.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2017]

Content descriptions

General Note:
"Larger print"--Page 4 of cover.
Subject: Wiggins, Ella May, 1900-1929 > Fiction.
Cotton manufacture > Fiction.
Labor union members > United States > 20th century > Fiction.
Labor unions > Fiction.
Poor families > Fiction.
Textile workers > Labor unions > Fiction.
Textile workers > United States > 20th century > Fiction.
Working mothers > Fiction.
Gastonia (N.C.) > Fiction.
Genre: Domestic fiction.
Historical fiction.

Available copies

  • 2 of 2 copies available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
  • 2 of 2 copies available at Scenic Regional.

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