Mother Jones: Raising Cain and Consciousness

by Simon Cordery

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826348106
• ISBN13: 9780826348104
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"