Mother Jones : the most dangerous woman in America / Elliott J. Gorn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gorn, Elliott J., 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jones, Mother, 1837-1930.

Jones.

Women labor union members--United States--Biography.

Women labor union members.

Working class women--United States--Biography.

Working class women.

Women labor leaders--United States--Biography.

Women labor leaders.

Women in the labor movement--United States--Biography.

Women in the labor movement.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xiii, 408 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Hill and Wang, 2001.

Summary:

Her rallying cry was famous: "Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living." A century ago, Mother Jones was a celebrated organizer and agitator, the very soul of the modern American labor movement. At coal strikes, steel strikes, railroad, textile, and brewery strikes, Mother Jones was always there, stirring the workers to action and enraging the powerful. In this first biography of "the most dangerous woman in America, " Elliott J. Gorn proves why, in the words of Eugene V. Debs, Mother Jones "has won her way into the hearts of the nation's toilers, and . . . will be lovingly remembered by their children and their children's children forever."

Contents:

1. Mary Harris 7

2. Mary Jones 33

3. Mother Jones 57

4. "There Comes the Star of Hope" 87

5. The Children's Crusade 117

6. "Faithfully Yours for the Revolution" 143

7. "Medieval West Virginia" 169

8. The Colorado Coal War 199

9. "The Walking Wrath of God" 227

10. The Last Decade 263

Epilogue: "Mother Jones Is Not Forgotten" 297.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-394) and index.

ISBN:

0809070936

OCLC:

44468884