Autobiography Of Mother Jones
by Jones, Mary Harris; Darrow, Clarence; Parton, Mary FieldFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2012-02-29
Publisher(s): Dover Publications
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Summary
Widowed at the age of 30 when her husband and four young children died during a yellow fever epidemic, Jones spoke tirelessly and effectively throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries on behalf of workers' rights and unionists, and played a significant role in organizing mining strikes.
Table of Contents
| Early Years | p. 1 |
| The Haymarket Tragedy | p. 5 |
| A Strike in Virginia | p. 9 |
| Wayland's Appeal to Reason | p. 12 |
| Victory at Arnot, Pennsylvania | p. 14 |
| War in West Virginia | p. 20 |
| A Human Judge | p. 26 |
| Roosevelt Sent for John Mitchell | p. 31 |
| Murder in West Virginia | p. 35 |
| The March of the Mill Children | p. 40 |
| "Those Mules Won't Scab Today" | p. 48 |
| How the Women Mopped Up Coaldale | p. 51 |
| The Cripple Creek Strike | p. 54 |
| Child Labor, North and South | p. 67 |
| Moyer, Haywood and Pettibone | p. 79 |
| The Mexican Revolution | p. 82 |
| How the Women Sang Themselves Out of Jail | p. 87 |
| Victory in West Virginia | p. 89 |
| Guards and Gunmen | p. 102 |
| Governor Hunt, Human and Just | p. 104 |
| In Rockefeller's Prisons | p. 108 |
| "You Don't Need a Vote to Raise Hell" | p. 119 |
| A West Virginia Prison Camp | p. 126 |
| The Steel Strike of 1919 | p. 129 |
| Struggle and Lose: Struggle and Win | p. 140 |
| Medieval West Virginia | p. 143 |
| Progress in Spite of Leaders | p. 146 |
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