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 management's 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…
Solange De Santis has been a reporter and writer for Reuters, Associated Press, and The Globe and Mail. She is currently a staff reporter for the Toronto office of the Wall Street Journal and lives in the Toronto area with her family.
