Life on the Line: One Woman's Tale of Work Sweat and Survival

Engaging--. Terrific--. Takes us over the collar line with grace and authority.--The New York Times. As a veteran reporter throughout the downsizing years of the auto industry in the United States and Canada Queens-born Solange De Santis covered her fair share of auto plant closings but almost always from the managements point of view.  That is until this mid-career mid-thirties Ivy League-educated journalist quit her job to become an assembly-line autoworker. . She was hired at a doomed General Motors plant and quickly learned about the bone-crushing realities and mitigated rewards of hard physical work.  In Life on the Line De Santis offers a glimpse into a world that too many of us shy away from acknowledging even as we accept the keys to our new cars. Completely candid and as unexpectedly poignant as it is funny Life on the Line will change the way you view blue-collar work and the cars on which we all depend.