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Author : Mother Jones
Publisher : Monad Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 736 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Mother Jones Speaks written by Mother Jones and published by Monad Publishing. This book was released on 1983 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mother Jones
Publisher : Speeches and Writings of a Wor
ISBN 13 : 9780873488105
Total Pages : 934 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (881 download)
Download or read book Mother Jones Speaks written by Mother Jones and published by Speeches and Writings of a Wor. This book was released on 1983 with total page 934 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From the end of the Civil War until her death in 1930 at the age of 100, Mary Harris ... was a tireless fighter for the working class ... Much of her efforts went into the great battles to organize the United Mine Workers of America. Throughout the coalfields of West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Colorado, Alabama and elsewhere, she joined with miners facing cops and troops, hired gun thugs and special deputies, judges and prosecutors, bringing to bear the power of the union. This collection, edited by historian Philip Foner, includes her speeches, interviews, and letters"--Cover.
Author : Elliott J. Gorn
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780809070947
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (79 download)
Download or read book Mother Jones written by Elliott J. Gorn and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-04-15 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[Biography of the] celebrated organizer and agitator, the very soul of protest movements in the early twentieth century."--Jacket.
Author : Mother Jones
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book The Autobiography of Mother Jones written by Mother Jones and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-17 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mother Jones was an exceptional woman who tirelessly fought for worker's rights till the end of her life. Labelled as the "Most Dangerous Woman" in America, she organised many successful strikes and championed for better enforcement of the child labor laws. In 1903, she also organized a children's march from Philadelphia to the home of President Theodore Roosevelt in New York. Learn more about her inspiring life in this meticulously edited and formatted edition which is adjusted for readability on all devices. Excerpt: I was born in the city of Cork, Ireland, in 1830. My people were poor. For generations they had fought for Ireland's freedom. Many of my folks have died in that struggle. My father, Richard Harris, came to America in 1835, and as soon as he had become an American citizen he sent for his family. His work as a laborer with railway construction crews took him to Toronto, Canada. Here I was brought up but always as the child of an American citizen. Of that citizenship I have ever been proud. After finishing the common schools, I attended the Normal school with the intention of becoming a teacher. Dress-making too, I learned proficiently. My first position was teaching in a convent in Monroe, Michigan. Later, I came to Chicago and opened a dress-making establishment. I preferred sewing to bossing little children. However, I went back to teaching again, this time in Memphis, Tennessee. Here I was married in 1861. My husband was an iron moulder and a member of the Iron Moulders' Union...
Author : Simon Cordery
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 0826348114
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)
Download or read book Mother Jones written by Simon Cordery and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2011-10-09 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A life touched by tragedy and deprivation--childhood in her native Ireland ending with the potato famine, immigration to Canada and then to the United States, marriage followed by the deaths of her husband and four children from yellow fever, and the destruction of her dressmaking business in the great Chicago fire of 1871--forged the stalwart labor organizer Mary Harris "Mother" Jones into a force to be reckoned with. Radicalized in a brutal era of repeated violence against hard-working men and women, Mother Jones crisscrossed the country to demand higher wages and safer working conditions. Her activism in support of American workers began after the age of sixty. The grandmotherly persona she projected won the hearts, and her stirring rhetoric the minds, of working people. She made herself into a national symbol of resistance to tyranny. Sometimes exaggerating her own experiences, she fought for justice in mines, factories, and workshops across the nation. For her troubles she was condemned as "the most dangerous woman in America." At her death in 1930 at the age of ninety-three, thousands paid tribute at a Washington, D.C., memorial service, and again at her burial in the only union-owned cemetery in America in the small mining town of Mount Olive, Illinois. As noted in The New York Times, the Rev. W. R. McGuire, who conducted her burial, said, "Wealthy coal operators and capitalists throughout the United States are breathing a sigh of relief while toil-worn men and women are weeping tears of bitter grief." The courage of Mother Jones is notorious and admired to this day. Cordery effectively recounts her story in this accessible biography, bringing to life an amazing woman and explaining the dramatic times through which she lived and to which she contributed so much.
Author : Mother Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780608076973
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (769 download)
Download or read book The Speeches and Writings of Mother Jones written by Mother Jones and published by . This book was released on with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mother Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Speeches and Writings of Mother Jones written by Mother Jones and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Labor organizer Mother Jones worked for 60 years to unionize workers. Dealing mainly with miners, she also spoke to steelworkers, textile workers, and brewery girls.
Author : Mac McClelland
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250052890
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Irritable Hearts written by Mac McClelland and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 2010, human rights reporter Mac McClelland left Haiti after covering the devastation of the earthquake. Back home, she finds herself imagining vivid scenes of violence and can't sleep or stop crying. It becomes clear that she is suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, triggered by her trip and seemingly exacerbated by her experiences in the other charged places she'd reported from. The bewilderment about this sudden loss of self-control is magnified by her feelings for Nico, a French soldier she met in Haiti, who despite their brief connection seems to have found a place in her confused heart. With ... fearlessness, McClelland sets out to repair her broken psyche"--
Author : Judith Pinkerton Josephson
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN 13 : 9780822549246
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (492 download)
Download or read book Mother Jones written by Judith Pinkerton Josephson and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of Mary Harris Jones, the union organizer who worked tirelessly for the rights of workers.
Author : Jonah Winter
Publisher : Schwartz & Wade
ISBN 13 : 0449812936
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (498 download)
Download or read book Mother Jones and Her Army of Mill Children written by Jonah Winter and published by Schwartz & Wade. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning picture book about Mary "Mother" Jones and the 100 children who marched from Philadelphia to New York in a fiery protest against child labor. Here's the inspiring story of the woman who raised her voice and fist to protect kids' childhoods and futures-- and changed America forever. Mother Jones is MAD, and she wants you to be MAD TOO, and stand up for what's right! Told in first-person, New York Times bestelling author, Jonah Winter, and acclaimed illustrator, Nancy Carpenter, share the incredible story of Mother Jones, an Irish immigrant who was essential in the fight to create child labor laws. Well into her sixties, Mother Jones had finally had enough of children working long hours in dangerous factory jobs, and decided she was going to do something about it. The powerful protests she organized earned her the name "the most dangerous woman in America." And in the Children's Crusade of 1903, she lead one hundred boys and girls on a glorious march from Philadelphia right to the front door of President Theodore Roosevelt's Long Island home. Open this beautiful and inspiring picture book to learn more about this feminist icon and how she inspired thousands to make change.
Author : William T. Vollmann
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101105151
Total Pages : 1789 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Imperial written by William T. Vollmann and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-07-30 with total page 1789 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Europe Central, winner of the National Book Award, a journalistic tour de force along the Mexican-American border – a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award For generations of migrant workers, Imperial Country has held the promise of paradise and the reality of hell. It sprawls across a stirring accidental sea, across the deserts, date groves and labor camps of Southeastern California, right across the border into Mexico. In this eye-opening book, William T. Vollmann takes us deep into the heart of this haunted region, exploring polluted rivers and guarded factories and talking with everyone from Mexican migrant workers to border patrolmen. Teeming with patterns, facts, stories, people and hope, this is an epic study of an emblematic region.
Author : Connie Colwell Miller
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 9780736896627
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (966 download)
Download or read book Mother Jones written by Connie Colwell Miller and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2007 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of Mary "Mother" Jones, a leading labor union and child labor activist in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Written in graphic-novel format.
Author : Mother Jones
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Mother Jones written by Mother Jones and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mother Jones was an exceptional woman who tirelessly fought for worker's rights till the end of her life. Labelled as the "Most Dangerous Woman" in America, she organised many successful strikes and championed for better enforcement of the child labor laws. In 1903, she also organized a children's march from Philadelphia to the home of President Theodore Roosevelt in New York. Excerpt: I was born in the city of Cork, Ireland, in 1830. My people were poor. For generations they had fought for Ireland's freedom. Many of my folks have died in that struggle. My father, Richard Harris, came to America in 1835, and as soon as he had become an American citizen he sent for his family. His work as a laborer with railway construction crews took him to Toronto, Canada. Here I was brought up but always as the child of an American citizen. Of that citizenship I have ever been proud. After finishing the common schools, I attended the Normal school with the intention of becoming a teacher. Dress-making too, I learned proficiently. My first position was teaching in a convent in Monroe, Michigan. Later, I came to Chicago and opened a dress-making establishment. I preferred sewing to bossing little children. However, I went back to teaching again, this time in Memphis, Tennessee. Here I was married in 1861. My husband was an iron moulder and a member of the Iron Moulders' Union...
Author : Mike Davis
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1839761229
Total Pages : 809 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (397 download)
Download or read book Set the Night on Fire written by Mike Davis and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 809 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Los Angeles Times Bestseller This riveting tour through 1960s Los Angeles is a “history from below, in the very best sense” as it celebrates the “grassroots heroes and struggles” of the social movements of the era (Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Natural Causes). “Authoritative and impressive.” —Los Angeles Times “Monumental.” —Guardian Los Angeles in the sixties was a hotbed of political and social upheaval. The city was a launchpad for Black Power—where Malcolm X and Angela Davis first came to prominence and the Watts uprising shook the nation. The city was home to the Chicano Blowouts and Chicano Moratorium, as well as being the birthplace of “Asian American” as a political identity. It was a locus of the antiwar movement, gay liberation movement, and women’s movement, and, of course, the capital of California counterculture. Mike Davis and Jon Wiener provide the first comprehensive movement history of L.A. in the sixties, drawing on extensive archival research and dozens of interviews with principal figures, as well as the authors’ storied personal histories as activists. Following on from Davis’s award-winning L.A. history, City of Quartz, Set the Night on Fire is a historical tour de force, delivered in scintillating and fiercely beautiful prose.
Author : Mother Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Autobiography of Mother Jones written by Mother Jones and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marwan Hisham
Publisher : One World
ISBN 13 : 0399590625
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (995 download)
Download or read book Brothers of the Gun written by Marwan Hisham and published by One World. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bracingly immediate memoir by a young man coming of age during the Syrian war, an intimate lens on the century’s bloodiest conflict, and a profound meditation on kinship, home, and freedom. A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • “This powerful memoir, illuminated with Molly Crabapple’s extraordinary art, provides a rare lens through which we can see a region in deadly conflict.”—Bryan Stevenson, author of Just Mercy In 2011, Marwan Hisham and his two friends—fellow working-class college students Nael and Tareq—joined the first protests of the Arab Spring in Syria, in response to a recent massacre. Arm-in-arm they marched, poured Coca-Cola into one another’s eyes to blunt the effects of tear gas, ran from the security forces, and cursed the country’s president, Bashar al-Assad. It was ecstasy. A long-bottled revolution was finally erupting, and freedom from a brutal dictator seemed, at last, imminent. Five years later, the three young friends were scattered: one now an Islamist revolutionary, another dead at the hands of government soldiers, and the last, Marwan, now a journalist in Turkish exile, trying to find a way back to a homeland reduced to rubble. Marwan was there to witness and document firsthand the Syrian war, from its inception to the present. He watched from the rooftops as regime warplanes bombed soldiers; as revolutionary activist groups, for a few dreamy days, spray-painted hope on Raqqa; as his friends died or threw in their lot with Islamist fighters. He became a journalist by courageously tweeting out news from a city under siege by ISIS, the Russians, and the Americans all at once. He saw the country that ran through his veins—the country that held his hopes, dreams, and fears—be destroyed in front of him, and eventually joined the relentless stream of refugees risking their lives to escape. Illustrated with more than eighty ink drawings by Molly Crabapple that bring to life the beauty and chaos, Brothers of the Gun offers a ground-level reflection on the Syrian revolution—and how it bled into international catastrophe and global war. This is a story of pragmatism and idealism, impossible violence and repression, and, even in the midst of war, profound acts of courage, creativity, and hope. “A book of startling emotional power and intellectual depth.”—Pankaj Mishra, author of Age of Anger and From the Ruins of Empire “A revelatory and necessary read on one of the most destructive wars of our time.”—Angela Davis
Author : Elliott J. Gorn
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466894008
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Mother Jones written by Elliott J. Gorn and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her rallying cry was famous: "Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living." A century ago, Mother Jones was a celebrated organizer and agitator, the very soul of the modern American labor movement. At coal strikes, steel strikes, railroad, textile, and brewery strikes, Mother Jones was always there, stirring the workers to action and enraging the powerful. In this first biography of "the most dangerous woman in America," Elliott J. Gorn proves why, in the words of Eugene V. Debs, Mother Jones "has won her way into the hearts of the nation's toilers, and . . . will be lovingly remembered by their children and their children's children forever."
