| Autobiography of Mother Jones Contributor(s): Jones, Mary Harris (Author), Darrow, Clarence (Introduction by), Parton, Mary Field (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0486436454 ISBN-13: 9780486436456 Publisher: Dover Publications OUR PRICE: $8.96 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2004 Annotation: Widowed at the age of 30 when her husband and four young children died during a yellow fever epidemic, Jones spoke tirelessly and effectively throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries on behalf of workers' rights and unionists, and played a significant role in organizing mining strikes. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Women - Political Science | Labor & Industrial Relations - Social Science | Women's Studies |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2004050048 |
| Physical Information: 0.35" H x 5.38" W x 8.47" (0.41 lbs) 150 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1900-1919 - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Chronological Period - 1920's - Chronological Period - 1930's - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Among the most stirring works of labor history ever written, this autobiography of Mother Jones (n e 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 epidemic, Mother Jones spoke out tirelessly and effectively for the rights of workers and unionists. She played a significant role in organizing mining strikes in West Virginia and Colorado, as well as the Pittsburgh steel strike of 1919. She was instrumental in the formation of the United Mine Workers union (UMW) in 1890 and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) in 1905. An important addition to feminist literature, the Autobiography of Mother Jones is also "a great piece of working-class literature...probably the most readable book in the whole field of American labor history." -- Clarence Darrow. |