Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America - Hardcover

Gorn, Elliott J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0809070936 ISBN 13: 9780809070930

Publisher: Hill & Wang Pub, 2001

Synopsis

A portrait of the celebrated union organizer and labor activist 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. 12,500 first printing.

About this title

From the Publisher:

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."

Elliott J. Gorn, a professor of history at Purdue University, is the co-author of A Brief History of American Sports and author of The Manly Art: Bare-Knuckle Prize Fighting in America.

About the Author:

Elliott J. Gorn, professor of history at Purdue University, is the co-author of A Brief History of American Sports (H&W, 1993) and author of The Manly Art: Bare-Knuckle Prize Fighting in America. He lives in Chicago.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hill & Wang Pub
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0809070936
• ISBN 13: 9780809070930
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 408