Mother Jones [[electronic resource] ] : raising Cain and consciousness / / Simon Cordery

• Autore: Cordery Simon <1960->
• Pubblicazione: Albuquerque, : University of New Mexico Press, 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (354 p.)
• Disciplina: 331.88092; B
• Soggetto topico: Women labor leaders - United States; Women social reformers - United States; Coal miners - Labor unions - Organizing - United States - History; Labor - United States - History
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Mother Jones
• ISBN: 1-283-88952-8; 0-8263-4811-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910779359403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Women's Biography Series