TY - BOOK AU - Gorn,Elliott J. TI - Mother Jones: the most dangerous woman in America SN - 0809070944 (pbk.) AV - HD8073.J6 G67 2002 U1 - 920/GOR PY - 2002/// CY - New York PB - Hill and Wang KW - Jones, KW - Women labor union members KW - United States KW - Biography KW - Working class women KW - Women labor leaders KW - Women in the labor movement N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Mary Harris -- Mary Jones -- Mother Jones -- "There comes the star of hope" -- children's crusade -- "Faithfully yours for the revolution" -- "Medieval West Virginia" -- Colorado Coal War -- "The walking wrath of God" -- Last decade N2 - 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." ER -