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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461927403321

Autore

Fetherling Dale <1941-2011.>

Titolo

Mother Jones the miners' angel [[electronic resource] ] : a portrait

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Carbondale, : Southern Illinois University Press, 2010

ISBN

1-280-69711-3

9786613674074

0-8093-8606-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (281 p.)

Disciplina

331.88/092/4

331.880924

Soggetti

Labor leaders - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Reprint. Originally published: 1974.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Book Title; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; 1. I Was Born in Revolution; 2. The Workers Asked Only for Bread; 3. Medieval West Virginia; 4. I Am Not Afraid of the Pen; 5. We Ask You Mr. President; 6. Whenever The Masters of the State; 7. I Belong to a Class; 8. The Most Dangerous Woman in America; 9. We Don't Want Sunday Schools; 10. I Want You to Come Out to Colorado; Gallery of Illustrations; 11. If I Pray I Will Have to Wait; 12. I Am a Socialist; 13. The Press Groveled; 14. I Have Never Had a Vote; 15. Never Peace in West Virginia

16. I Am Not Afraid of the Press 17. Some Day in the Golden Future; References and Notes; Notes; Index; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

For half a century Mother Jones took up the workingman's cause without question and fought his battles without compromise. Dale Fetherling's biography for the first time gives her full story, with eloquence and sympathetic understanding.