Autobiography of Mother Jones.

JONES, Mary G. Harris. [Mother Jones].

$600.00

Item Number: 123791

Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Company, 1925.

First edition of the autobiography of the most famous female labor activist of the nineteenth century, Mother Jones. Octavo, original cloth. Edited by Mary Field Parton. Introduction by Clarence Darrow. In very good condition.

Following the destruction of her dress shop in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, Irish-born American Mary G. Harris Jones devoted herself to labor activism, working as an organizer for the Knights of Labor and the United Mine Workers union. In 1902, she was referred to as "the most dangerous woman in America" for her success in organizing mine workers and their families against the mine owners. In 1903, to protest the lax enforcement of the child labor laws in the Pennsylvania mines and silk mills, she organized a children's march from Philadelphia to the home of President Theodore Roosevelt in New York. Jones became one of the founders of the Social Democratic Party in 1898 and of the Industrial Workers of the World in 1905. Her Autobiography of Mother Jones was published in 1925.