Perhaps the most famous labor activist and union organizer in history, Mary Harris Jones was an Irish emigre who watched her husband and four children die of yellow fever, saw her modest dressmaking shop go up in flames in the Great Chicago Fire and, as a lonely, poor widow in the late 19th century, was facing a bleak future.Then, as she approached old age and became involved in the labor movement, she reinvented herself as "Mother Jones" - a fierce advocate of unionizing coal mine...

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 (SparkNotes Biography Guide)Making the reading experience fun!SparkNotes Biography Guides examine the lives of historical luminaries, from Alexander the Great to Virginia Woolf. Each biography guide includes:An examination of the historical context in which the person livedA summary of the person’s life and achievementsA glossary of important terms, people, and eventsAn in-depth look at the key epochs in the person’s...

Mother Jones: Revolutionary Leader of Labor and Social Reform defines Mother Jones as the most significant and relevant political voice for the working class to ever emerge from within the United States.Although Mary Harris "Mother" Jones identified herself as a socialist, her politics coincided with revolutionary syndicalism. The duality of Socialism and Syndicalism defined her role as a leader of labor and social reform during the late 1800s and early 19...

Mary Harris "Mother" Jones (1830-1930) was a fierce and tireless advocate of the labor movement. A trade union organizer, a feminist, and a working class hero, Mother Jones spent years fighting for the labor rights of miners, industrial workers, and children.

Autobiography of Mother Jones is the compelling life story of Mary Harris Jones, known to the world as Mother Jones, one of the most influential labor organizers in American history. Published in 1925, this autobiography chronicles her journey from her early years in Ireland, through personal tragedies and hardships, to her emergence as a fearless advocate for workers’ rights. Mother Jones recounts her experiences with vivid detail and passionate conviction, offering firsthand accounts of ...

How do you force a deeply corrupt, heavily bribed government to care about the horrific exploitation of its most vulnerable citizens? In 1903, a fierce labor organizer named Mary Harris "Mother" Jones realized that statistics and quiet lobbying were utterly useless. She needed an undeniable visual spectacle to shame the nation into action. To expose the gruesome reality of child labor in the textile mills, Jones organized the "March of the Mill Children." She led a grueling, multi-week pro...

In March 1913, labor agitator Mary Harris "Mother" Jones and forty-seven other civilians were tried by a military court on charges of murder and conspiracy to murder—charges stemming from violence that erupted during the long coal miners' strike in the Paint Creek and Cabin Creek areas of Kanawha County, West Virginia. Immediately after the trial, some of the convicted defendants received conditional pardons, but Mother Jones and eleven others remained in custody until early May.Th...

Among the most stirring works of labor history ever written, this autobiography of Mother Jones (née Mary Harris) chronicles the life of a woman who was considered a saint by many, and by others, "the most dangerous woman in America." A forceful and picturesque figure in the American labor movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Mother Jones was a born crusader.Widowed at the age of 30 when her husband and four young children died during a yellow fever epidemi...

A stunning picture book about Mary "Mother" Jones and the 100 children who marched from Philadelphia to New York in a fiery protest against child labor.Here's the inspiring story of the woman who raised her voice and fist to protect kids' childhoods and futures-- and changed America forever. Mother Jones is MAD, and she wants you to be MAD TOO, and stand up for what's right! Told in first-person, New York Times bestelling author, Jonah Winter, and acclaime...

'Even though in our heart of hearts we'd known to expect this bad news, the physical evidence hit us like a ton of bricks. These were no happy snaps. This was our mother's glorious, clever, witty, intelligent brain withering away before our eyes, and there was nothing we could do?'Sarah Jones shares the very personal and heartfelt story of being there with her mother, Jeannie Somerville, as she succumbed to the cruel blows of dementia, and follows Jeannie's journey, which ...

In addition to dealing with office break-ins and possibly someone following her, along with having to make an Official Milton Appearance at her mothers' vow renewal ceremony, Port Milton gets even more chaotic for Waverly Jones when a body shows up matching the same victimology from a case investigated--and solved--by Det Kyle thirteen years ago. [full description coming soon]