Mother Jones

  • Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America
    Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America
    By Elliott J. Gorn

    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 ...

  • Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America
    Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America
    By Elliott J. Gorn

    Traces Mother Jones's obscure early life as an Irish immigrant, schoolteacher, and dressmaker; details the early deaths of her husband and children; and her role as an agitator who changed the course of the American labor movement.

  • Mother Jones: Raising Cain and Consciousness
    Mother Jones: Raising Cain and Consciousness
    By Simon Cordery

    18 Each marcher carried utensils, with eight wagonloads of bread and canned food. A portable oven accompanied the procession. Leaving Philadelphia on 7 July 1903, they marched to Easton 88 chapter six.

  • Mother Jones: Raising Cain and Consciousness
    Mother Jones: Raising Cain and Consciousness
    By Simon Cordery

    The details of the life and work of Mary Harris "Mother" Jones are skillfully told here for those who have not heard her story and those who know it well.

  • Mother Jones: Revolutionary Leader of Labor and Social Reform
    Mother Jones: Revolutionary Leader of Labor and Social Reform
    By Dorothy L. Wake

    Mother Jones: Revolutionary Leader of Labor and Social Reform defines Mother Jones as the most significant and relevant political voice for the working class to ever emerge from within the United States.

  • Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America
    Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America
    By Elliott J. Gorn

    ( Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1937–1957 ) ; Donald L. Miller , City of the Century : The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America ( New York : Simon and Schuster , 1996 ) . 32. Karen Sawislak , Smoldering City : Chicagoans ...

  • Mother Jones: Labor Leader
    Mother Jones: Labor Leader
    By Connie Colwell Miller

    "In graphic novel format, tells the story of Mary "Mother" Jones, a leading labor union and child labor activist in the late 1800s and early 1900s"--Provided by publisher.

  • Mother Jones: Fierce Fighter for Workers' Rights
    Mother Jones: Fierce Fighter for Workers' Rights
    By Judith Pinkerton Josephson

    A biography of Mary Harris Jones, the union organizer who worked tirelessly for the rights of workers.

  • Mother Jones
    Mother Jones
    By Kathlyn Gay

    Mother Jones rarely backed down from a fight. This new biography retells the story of one of the most colorful figures in American history. Book jacket.