TY - BOOK AU - Russell,Mary Doria TI - The women of the copper country: a novel SN - 9781982109585 PY - 2019/// CY - New York PB - Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. KW - Clemenc, Ana K., KW - Copper Miners' Strike, Mich., 1913-1914 KW - Fiction KW - Women labor leaders KW - Michigan KW - Labor movement KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Historical fiction KW - lcgft KW - Biographical fiction N1 - Includes bibliographical references N2 - "In July 1913, twenty-five-year-old Annie Clements had seen enough of the world to know that it was unfair. She's spent her whole life in the coal-mining town of Calumet, Michigan where men risk their lives for meager salaries--and had barely enough to put food on the table and clothes on their backs. The women labor in the houses of the elite, and send their husbands and sons deep underground each day, dreading the fateful call of the company man telling them their loved ones aren't coming home. When Annie decides to stand up for herself, and the entire town of Calumet, nearly everyone believes she may have taken on more than she is prepared to handle"-- ER -