Mother Jones
eBook - ePub

Mother Jones

An American Life

  1. 434 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Mother Jones

An American Life

About this book

Her rallying cry was famous: "Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living." A century ago, Mother Jones was a celebrated organizer and agitator, the very soul of the modern American labor movement. At coal strikes, steel strikes, railroad, textile, and brewery strikes, Mother Jones was always there, stirring the workers to action and enraging the powerful. In this first biography of "the most dangerous woman in America," Elliott J. Gorn proves why, in the words of Eugene V. Debs, Mother Jones "has won her way into the hearts of the nation's toilers, and . . . will be lovingly remembered by their children and their children's children forever."

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Notice
  4. Dedication
  5. List of Illustrations
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction
  8. 1. Mary Harris
  9. 2. Mary Jones
  10. 3. Mother Jones
  11. 4. ā€œThere Comes the Star of Hopeā€
  12. 5. The Children’s Crusade
  13. 6. ā€œFaithfully Yours for the Revolutionā€
  14. 7. ā€œMedieval West Virginiaā€
  15. 8. The Colorado Coal War
  16. 9. ā€œThe Walking Wrath of Godā€
  17. 10. The Last Decade
  18. Epilogue: ā€œMother Jones Is Not Forgottenā€
  19. List of Archives
  20. Notes
  21. Index
  22. About the Author
  23. Also by Elliott J. Gorn
  24. Newsletter Sign-up
  25. Contents
  26. Copyright