Mother Jones

Cordery, Simon, 1960-

Mother Jones raising Cain and consciousness / [electronic resource] : Simon Cordery. - Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2010. - x, 213 p. : ill. - Women's biography series .

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.


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Palo Alto, Calif. :
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2013.
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Jones, Mother, 1837-1930.


United Mine Workers of America--History.


Women labor leaders--United States--Biography.
Women social reformers--United States--Biography.
Coal miners--Labor unions--Organizing--History.--United States
Labor--History.--United States


Electronic books.

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