TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cordery,Simon
TI  - Mother Jones: raising Cain and consciousness 
T2  - Women's biography series
SN  - 9780826348111
AV  - HD8073 .M684 2010
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Albuquerque
PB  - University of New Mexico Press
KW  - Jones,
KW  - United Mine Workers of America
KW  - History
KW  - Women labor leaders
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
KW  - Women social reformers
KW  - Coal miners
KW  - Labor unions
KW  - Organizing
KW  - Labor
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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
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