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Author: Elliott J. GornPublisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Edition Description: IllustratedISBN-10: 0809070936
Subject: Biography & AutobiographyISBN-13: 9780809070930
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Language: EnglishPublication Year: 2001
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This biography of the famous organizer and reformer covers her birth and early years in Ireland, the loss of her family, and the work she did--late in her life--on behalf of workers in the mines, railroads, and factories. Mother Jones became an American legend and inspiration for those, like Eugene Debs, who came after her.

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Length:408 pages
Height:9.5 in.
Width:6.5 in.
Thickness:1.5 in.
Weight:24.0 oz.

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Her rallying cry was famous: "Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living." Mother Jones (1837-1930) was a celebrated organizer and agitator, the very soul of the labor movement in the early twentieth century. At coal strikes, steel strikes, railroad, textile, and brewery strikes, Mother Jones was always there, stirring the workers to action and enraging the powerful.
Mother Jones was on the brink of old age when she began her public life, and her early years have long been shrouded in obscurity. Elliott J. Gorn has uncovered them here, as he not only interprets her career as an agitator but also looks back at her emigration from Ireland, her work as schoolteacher and dressmaker, the tragic early deaths of her husband and children, and the "lost years" when she faded from view altogether. In so doing, he shows how great world events (the Irish potato famine, the cholera epidemic) affected the course of her life and thus the life of the American labor movement. In short, Gorn makes it clear 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."

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"Although clearly an admirer of Mother Jones, Gorn is by no means uncritical of her flaws and inconsistencies. If anything, he is sometimes a bit too inclined to judge her by the current standards of political correctness. But his immensely readable biography succeeds in conveying what was most important about her: her altruism, her pragmatism and, most of all, her courage."
Los Angeles Times - Merle Rubin (03/26/2001)


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