Woman from Spillertown : a memoir of Agnes Burns Wieck / David Thoreau Wieck ; with a foreword by Thomas Dublin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wieck, David Thoreau, 1921-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wieck, Agnes Burns, 1892-1966.

Wieck, Agnes Burns.

Labor unions--United States--Officials and employees--Biography.

Labor unions.

Women's rights.

History.

Coal miners--Labor unions.

United States.

Illinois.

Labor leaders--United States--Biography.

Labor leaders.

Coal miners--Labor unions--Illinois--History.

Coal miners.

Women's rights--Illinois--History.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xiv, 280 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [1992]

Summary:

Kathryn Kish Sklar calls this work "a major contribution to our historical understanding of the role of women in organizing American miners in the twentieth century."

Agnes Burns Wieck was a crusading labor organizer, an activist known as "the Mother Jones of Illinois." This first book-length biography is a unique portrait of her energy and unremitting dedication to social justice.

Wieck organized miners'wives and led a movement of Illinois coalfield women. She used her talents as a journalist and a public speaker to campaign for a decent standard of living, for good schools and working conditions in communities free of corporate domination, and for union democracy, racial equality, and acceptance of women in political life.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0809316196

OCLC:

22860471