Namn enligt folkbokföringen: Jones, Mary Harris
Andra namn: Jones, Mother
Födelsedag: 1837-08-01
1830-05-01
Avled: 1930-11-30
Begravningsplats: Union Miners Cemetery, Mount Olive, Illinois
Kön: female
Nationalitet: Ireland (birth)
UK
USA
Land (för karta): USA
Bostadsorter: Cork, Ireland
Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Yrken: labor organizer
lecturer
social reformer
Organisationer: Industrial Workers of the World (co-founder, 1905)
Kort biografi: 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."

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Autobiography of Mother Jones av Mary Harris Jones

She's my #1 hero in history.

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mitchtroutman | 2 andra recensioner | Jun 14, 2020 |

The Autobiography of Mother Jones av Mary Harris Jones

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 | 2 andra recensioner | Mar 30, 2013 |

The Autobiography of Mother Jones av Mary Harris Jones

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.… (mer)

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tloeffler | 2 andra recensioner | Jan 29, 2012 |

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