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Author Cordery, Simon, 1960-

Title Mother Jones [electronic resource] : raising Cain and consciousness / Simon Cordery.

Imprint Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2010.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description x, 213 p. : ill.
Series Women's biography series
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction : Mother Jones and the American labor movement -- An Irish inheritance -- Leaving homes -- The making of Mother Jones -- Sampling the labor scene -- Organizing coal country -- Calling on President Roosevelt -- Defending undesirables, promoting socialism -- The coal war resumed -- Massacre at Ludlow -- Streetcars and steel -- Mother Jones of America.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Jones, Mother, 1837-1930.
United Mine Workers of America -- History.
Women labor leaders -- United States -- Biography.
Women social reformers -- United States -- Biography.
Coal miners -- Labor unions -- Organizing -- United States -- History.
Labor -- United States -- History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780826348104 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0826348106 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780826348111 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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