From an experienced labor organizer, a clear-eyed, gritty, yet lyrical memoir about two women fighting to organize an Arizona factory and about the transformative power of collective action. On the Line is the story of a bold, five-year campaign to unionize the dangerous industrial laundry factories in deep red Arizona, led by 25-year-old Daisy Pitkin, a newly hired organizer for UNITE, an international garment workers union, and Alma, a second-shift immigrant factory worker who risks her livelihood to lead her coworkers in their campaign for safer working conditions. Their struggle illuminates the harsh realities that workers in these factories face--routine exposure to biohazardous waste, surgical tools left in hospital sheets, and overheating machinery--as well as the ways broken U.S. labor law makes it nearly impossible for them to fight back. Their team prevails by exposing the company's retaliatory firings and threats against workers who support the union and by convincing worker
