Woman from Spillertown: A Memoir of Agnes Burns Wieck Contributor(s): Wieck, David Thoreau (Author) |
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ISBN: 0809316196 ISBN-13: 9780809316199 Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press OUR PRICE: $19.80 Product Type: Hardcover Published: December 1991 Annotation: Kathryn Kish Sklar calls this work "a major contribution to our historical understanding of the role of women in organizing American miners in the twentieth century."
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Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Political - Biography & Autobiography | Women - Social Science | Women's Studies |
Dewey: B |
LCCN: 90024460 |
Lexile Measure: 1250 |
Physical Information: 1.09" H x 5.76" W x 8.74" (1.31 lbs) 296 pages |
Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
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Publisher Description: Kathryn Kish Sklar calls this work a major contribution to our historical understanding of the role of women in organizing American miners in the twentieth century. Agnes Burns Wieck was a crusading labor organizer, an activist known as the Mother Jones of Illinois. This first book-length biography is a unique portrait of her energy and unremitting dedication to social justice. Wieck organized miners' wives and led a movement of Illinois coalfield women. She used her talents as a journalist and a public speaker to campaign for a decent standard of living, for good schools and working conditions in communities free of corporate domination, and for union democracy, racial equality, and acceptance of women in political life. |