Mother Jones : raising Cain and consciousness / Simon Cordery.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cordery, Simon, 1960-

Series:

Women's Biography Series

Women's biography series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women labor leaders--United States--Biography.

Women labor leaders.

Women social reformers--United States--Biography.

Women social reformers.

Coal miners--Labor unions--Organizing--United States--History.

Coal miners.

Labor--United States--History.

Labor.

United Mine Workers of America--History.

United Mine Workers of America.

Jones, Mother, 1837-1930.

Jones.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (354 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A life touched by tragedy and deprivation--childhood in her native Ireland ending with the potato famine, immigration to Canada and then to the United States, marriage followed by the deaths of her husband and four children from yellow fever, and the destruction of her dressmaking business in the great Chicago fire of 1871--forged the stalwart labor organizer Mary Harris ""Mother"" Jones into a force to be reckoned with. Radicalized in a brutal era of repeated violence against hard-working men and women, Mother Jones crisscrossed the country to demand higher wages and safer working condition.

Contents:

Introduction : Mother Jones and the American labor movement

An Irish inheritance

Leaving homes

The making of Mother Jones

Sampling the labor scene

Organizing coal country

Calling on President Roosevelt

Defending undesirables, promoting socialism

The coal war resumed

Massacre at Ludlow

Streetcars and steel

Mother Jones of America.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781283889520

1283889528

9780826348111

0826348114

OCLC:

952747072