Mother Jones: The Miners' Angel

by Dale Fetherling

In the course of her career as a labor agitator, Mother Jones took part in some of the most momentous battles in American labor history: The Great Railroad Strike of 1877, the Haymarket Riot of 1886, and the "Debs Rebellion" of 1894. Her last big effort took place during the 1919 steel strike, as she neared her nine­tieth year. For half a century Mother Jones was an impious Joan of Arc, an industrial Carrie Nation, who took up the workingman's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809329735
• ISBN13: 9780809329731
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.9" x 7.9"