02997nam 2200661 a 450 991077935940332120230207231652.01-283-88952-80-8263-4811-4(CKB)2550000000707604(EBL)1105300(SSID)ssj0000787121(PQKBManifestationID)12361524(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000787121(PQKBWorkID)10803811(PQKB)11766270(MiAaPQ)EBC1105300(OCoLC)952747072(MdBmJHUP)muse91403(Au-PeEL)EBL1105300(CaPaEBR)ebr10639522(CaONFJC)MIL420202(OCoLC)824698497(EXLCZ)99255000000070760420091029d2010 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrMother Jones[electronic resource] raising Cain and consciousness /Simon CorderyAlbuquerque University of New Mexico Press20101 online resource (354 p.)Women's biography seriesDescription based upon print version of record.0-8263-4810-6 Includes bibliographical references 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.A life touched by tragedy and deprivation--childhood in her native Ireland ending with the potato famine, immigration to Canada and then to the United States, marriage followed by the deaths of her husband and four children from yellow fever, and the destruction of her dressmaking business in the great Chicago fire of 1871--forged the stalwart labor organizer Mary Harris ""Mother"" Jones into a force to be reckoned with. Radicalized in a brutal era of repeated violence against hard-working men and women, Mother Jones crisscrossed the country to demand higher wages and safer working condition.Women's Biography SeriesWomen labor leadersUnited StatesBiographyWomen social reformersUnited StatesBiographyCoal minersLabor unionsOrganizingUnited StatesHistoryLaborUnited StatesHistoryWomen labor leadersWomen social reformersCoal minersLabor unionsOrganizingHistory.LaborHistory.331.88092BCordery Simon1960-1573221MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910779359403321Mother Jones3848854UNINA