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A key organizer in the early American union movement of the late 1800s, Mother Jones encouraged many groups of American workers to stand up for their rights in the face of larger-than-life foes like Carnegie and Rockefeller, becoming a powerful symbol in her own time as well as in the civil rights m...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cordery, Simon, 1960-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2010.
Colección:Women's biography series.
Temas:
Jones, > Mother, > 1837-1930.
United Mine Workers of America > History.
United Mine Workers of America.
Women labor leaders > United States > Biography.
Women social reformers > United States > Biography.
Coal miners > Labor unions > Organizing > United States > History.
Labor > United States > History.
Dirigeantes syndicales > États-Unis > Biographies.
Réformatrices sociales > États-Unis > Biographies.
Travail > États-Unis > Histoire.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
Coal miners > Labor unions > Organizing.
Labor.
Women labor leaders.
Women social reformers.
United States.
Biography
Biographies.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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
  • Conclusion : A life in motion.

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