She was instrumental in the formation of the United Mine Workers union (UMW) in 1890 and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) in 1905.Īn important addition to feminist literature, the Autobiography of Mother Jones is also a great piece of working-class literature.probably the most readable book in the whole field of American labor history. In the early 1850s, Harris and her family left to establish a better life in America, finally settling in Toronto. She played a significant role in organizing mining strikes in West Virginia and Colorado, as well as the Pittsburgh steel strike of 1919. Born as Mary Harris in Ireland in 1837, Mother Jones experienced a difficult early life, surrounded by the poverty of an Ireland devastated by English domination and a famine that ravaged the vital potato crop.

Widowed at the age of 30 when her husband and four young children died during a yellow fever epidemic, Mother Jones spoke out tirelessly and effectively for the rights of workers and unionists. The Autobiography of Mother Jones Ratings Release Date Duration Summary Genres Reviews This title is due for release on January 1, 2016. A forceful and picturesque figure in the American labor movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Mother Jones was a born crusader. The Autobiography of Mother Jones by Mother Jones, Mary Field Parton(Editor) 4.

Among the most stirring works of labor history ever written, this autobiography of Mother Jones (n e Mary Harris) chronicles the life of a woman who was considered a saint by many, and by others, the most dangerous woman in America.

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