Autobiography of Mother Jones by Mary Harris Jones

Work was plentiful in Tennessee, and for a time the family enjoyed a modest prosperity. During the first four years of their marriage they had four children. There she met and married Robert Jones, an iron worker who was an enthusiastic member of the Iron Moulder's Union. She moved to Chicago to explore the possibilities of becoming a professional dressmaker, but, at age 30, returned to teaching, this time in Memphis, Tennessee. She became a teacher at a Catholic school in Monroe, Michigan, soon after graduation. Mary was an excellent student and she graduated with high honors from high school. The family first settled in Toronto, Canada, where Mary's father was working on one of the first Canadian railroads. Once he became a naturalized American citizen around 1840, he sent for his wife and daughter. When Mary was five years old, her father came to America, where he went to work building canals and railroads, a job similar to the one he had held in Ireland. 'Mother Jones' was born in 1830, near Dublin, Ireland to parents who were eager to emigrate. She did this for seventy years as a trade union organizer, a feminist, and a campaigner against child labor in America. After losing her own family to yellow fever, Mary Jones found in the lives of the downtrodden a new family to nurture and support.

'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title.Mary Harris 'Mother' Jones (1830–1930) is one of the great legends of American progressive politics. Also included are a Mother Jones article from 1901, a tribute by Eugene V Debs, an introduction by Clarence Darrow, helpful annotations to the text, a full bibliography and an index. IWW historian Fred Thompson's Afterword provides useful background and fills in important gaps in Mother Jones' story.

In a new Foreword Meridel LeSueur vividly recalls her 1914 meeting with Mother Jones. This abundantly illustrated new edition includes a host of valuable additions. Mother Jones' lively narrative - every page bristling with her characteristic humor, indignation and uncommon sense - is a masterpiece of American radicalism. Here too is the exciting story of her crusade against child labor, her innovative efforts to organize working women, her experiences in court and in jail, and her daring involvement in the Mexican Revolution. I n steel, railroading, metal mining, textiles, and above all, the coal industry, Mother Jones fought alongside strikers. In this classic work of American nonfiction the greatest labor organizer in US history details her three quarter century fight for labor's liberation, and her unswerving belief in industrial unionism as the key to that struggle.

Autobiography of Mother Jones by Mary Harris Jones