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Mary Harris Jones (1837–1930)

Autor(a) de Autobiography of Mother Jones

5+ Works 267 Membros 3 Reviews 1 Favorited

About the Author

Image credit: Copyright by Bertha Howell, 1902 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-47038)

Obras de Mary Harris Jones

Associated Works

Growing Up Female in America: Ten Lives (1971) — Contribuinte — 106 cópias
Calling Home: Working-Class Women's Writings (1990) — Contribuinte — 57 cópias

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Nome de batismo
Jones, Mary Harris
Outros nomes
Jones, Mother
Data de nascimento
1837-08-01
1830-05-01
Data de falecimento
1930-11-30
Local de enterro
Union Miners Cemetery, Mount Olive, Illinois
Sexo
female
Nacionalidade
Ireland (birth)
UK
USA
País (para mapa)
USA
Locais de residência
Cork, Ireland
Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Ocupação
labor organizer
lecturer
social reformer
Organizações
Industrial Workers of the World (co-founder, 1905)
Pequena biografia
Mary Harris Jones, who used the nickname "Mother Jones," became a union organizer and popular public speaker after losing her husband and children to a yellow fever epidemic and her dressmaking business to the Great Chicago Fire. She was once called "the most dangerous woman in America."

Membros

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She's my #1 hero in history.
 
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mitchtroutman | outras 2 resenhas | Jun 14, 2020 |
A shocking account of the lives of working families in the USA and how they were ruthlessly exploited by their Wealthy bosses.
A Story of workers oppression, forced losses of health, dire working conditions, narrow lives created by the likes of Rockerfeller who did not care for his workers.
An eye opener. If you think we don't need Unions read this book.
 
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wonderperson | outras 2 resenhas | Mar 30, 2013 |
Mother Jones was one of the first union activists, focusing primarily on miners. She was not a writer. But it was interesting to read her words about her activities. It's amazing that she lived to be so old--I would have expected someone from the mine companies to have killed her early in the game. But I guess they realized, as she did, that the miners thought so highly of her, and her agitating would be nothing compared to the uprising that would come if anything happened to her. There is included a lengthy introduction by [[Fred Thompson]] "to help the reader find documented descriptions of the events in which she had been involved," which is very helpful. She was a determined woman, a bit crazy and foolhardy, but probably a key reason for the eventual success of miners' unions.… (mais)
 
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tloeffler | outras 2 resenhas | Jan 29, 2012 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
5
Also by
2
Membros
267
Popularidade
#86,454
Avaliação
½ 3.7
Resenhas
3
ISBNs
26
Idiomas
5
Favorito
1

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