On 2000-06-08 egalitarian ethos, wrote: One of the more definitive books on Mother Jones,´Mother Jones, the Miners´ Angel´ provides readers with a discerning and penetrating look at one of America´s more prominent labour agitators.
Joining the labour movement in Chicago after the death of her husband and daughters, Mother Jones became an prominent organizer due to her almost unparalleled oratory skills.
As one of the founders of the Social Democratic party (1898) and the Industrial Workers of the World (1905), Mother Jones was active in organizing miners, garment workers, and streetcar workers. Due to her effectiveness in organizing labour she was persistantly persecuted by authorities and in 1913 she was convicted of conspiracy to commit murder on trumped up charges. The sentence was commuted and in 1914 Mother Jones again played a prominent role in publicizing the massacre of 20 people by machine-gun fire during a Ludlow, Colorado miner´s strike. Throughout her years of involvement in labour Mother Jones was continually a vocal advocate of laws to end child labour.
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Southern Illinois University Press claimed This biography details the legacy of the most extraordinary woman labor agitator in American history. The life of Mother Jones “is an epic, and it is the shame of American writers that it has never been told,” George West wrote in the Nation in July 1922. “She is a great woman,” he added, “unsung because of our tradition of cheap gentility.” The truth of West’s lament has endured until now. Mother Jones lived a century. Born in 1830, widowed in 1867 in Memphis, and suffering the loss of her husband and four children from yellow fever she moved to Chicago, where her business as a seamstress was destroyed by the great fire of 1871. Thus tempered by adversity, she came to have a lively sympathy for the downtrodden laboring classes, and she devoted the rest of her life to seeking the betterment of the workingman—especially the coal miner. In the course of her career as a labor agitator, Mother Jones took part in some of the most momentous battles in American labor history: The Great Railroad Strike of 1877, the Haymarket Riot of 1886, and the “Debs Rebellion” of 1894. Her last big effort took place during the 1919 steel strike, as she neared her ninetieth year. For half a century Mother Jones was an impious Joan of Arc, an industrial Carrie Nation, who took up the workingman’s cause without question and fought his battles without compromise. Dale Fetherling’s big and important biography for the first time gives her full story, with eloquence and sympathetic understanding.
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