We Be Here When Morning Comes

We Be Here When the Morning Comes is a book about people and courage and dignity striving to attain a measure of control over their lives and destinies. It is also a book about Appalachia and about the American labor movement. It describes, from the point of view of the striking mountaineers, the thirteen-month strike at the Brookside and Highsplint coal mines in Harlan County, KY-a strike marked by sporadic violence, controversial court orders, arrests of miners' wives, the death of one striker, and the threat of open warfare between union supporters and 'scabs.'