Mother Jones : raising Cain and consciousness /
Cordery, Simon, 1960-
Mother Jones : raising Cain and consciousness / Simon Cordery. - Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, (c)2010. - 1 online resource (x, 213 pages) : illustrations. - - Women's biography series .
Includes bibliographies and index.
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 -- Conclusion : A life in motion.
A key organizer in the early American union movement of the late 1800s, Mother Jones encouraged many groups of American workers to stand up for their rights in the face of larger-than-life foes like Carnegie and Rockefeller, becoming a powerful symbol in her own time as well as in the civil rights movements of the 1960s and '70s. Author and professor Cordery (British Friendly Societies, 1750-1918) has produced an exhaustive biography of Mary Harris Jones, drawn mostly from her own testimonials and primary source accounts of her work-which the activist-agitator didn't begin until her sixties. Cordery is quick not to take Jones's words at face value-her commitment was to the cause, not to truth-but his reportorial rigor takes a lot of steam out of the proceedings, making for a scandalously dry narrative about a figure central to some very interesting times.
9780826348111 9781283889520
2009045999
Jones, Mother, 1837-1930.
United Mine Workers of America--History.
United Mine Workers of America--History.
Women labor leaders--United States--Biography.
Women social reformers--United States--Biography.
Coal miners--Labor unions--Organizing--History.--United States
Labor--History.--United States
Electronic Books.
HD8073 / .M684 2010
Mother Jones : raising Cain and consciousness / Simon Cordery. - Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, (c)2010. - 1 online resource (x, 213 pages) : illustrations. - - Women's biography series .
Includes bibliographies and index.
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 -- Conclusion : A life in motion.
A key organizer in the early American union movement of the late 1800s, Mother Jones encouraged many groups of American workers to stand up for their rights in the face of larger-than-life foes like Carnegie and Rockefeller, becoming a powerful symbol in her own time as well as in the civil rights movements of the 1960s and '70s. Author and professor Cordery (British Friendly Societies, 1750-1918) has produced an exhaustive biography of Mary Harris Jones, drawn mostly from her own testimonials and primary source accounts of her work-which the activist-agitator didn't begin until her sixties. Cordery is quick not to take Jones's words at face value-her commitment was to the cause, not to truth-but his reportorial rigor takes a lot of steam out of the proceedings, making for a scandalously dry narrative about a figure central to some very interesting times.
9780826348111 9781283889520
2009045999
Jones, Mother, 1837-1930.
United Mine Workers of America--History.
United Mine Workers of America--History.
Women labor leaders--United States--Biography.
Women social reformers--United States--Biography.
Coal miners--Labor unions--Organizing--History.--United States
Labor--History.--United States
Electronic Books.
HD8073 / .M684 2010