Title: Torch in the dark
Description: Publisher description: As a single mother haunted by painful memories from her own traumatic childhood, Hadiyah Joan Carlyle pioneered as one of the first women since World War II to enter the trades as a union welder. For Hadiya, welding became a metaphor for healing from the dark past as well as a path to self-reliance and economic survival. While providing insightful perspective on the culture of the 1960s and 1970s, this memoir offers profound inspiration for anyone struggling with issues of abuse and oppression.
Subjects: Biography, Women welders, Shipyards, Mentally ill women, Counterculture, Women, united states, biography, Businesswomen, biography
Places: Washington (State), Pacific Coast (U.S.), United States, Pacific Coast
People: Hadiyah Joan Carlyle
Time periods: 20th century