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The Autobiography of Mother Jones

By: Mary Jones,Mother Jones

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The Autobiography of Mother Jones

By: Mary Jones,Mother Jones

Mary Harris "Mother" Jones (1837 - 1930), born in Cork, Ireland, was a prominent American labor and community organizer, who helped coordinate major strikes and co-founded the Industrial Workers of the World.She worked as a teacher and dressmaker but after her husband and four children all died of yellow fever and her workshop was destroyed in a fire in 1871 she began working as an organizer for the Knights of Labor and the United Mine Workers union.She was a very effective speaker, punctuating her speeches with stories, audience participation, humor and dramatic stunts. From 1897 (when she was 60) she was known as Mother Jones and in 1902 she was called "the most dangerous woman in America" for her success in organizing mine workers and their families against the mine owners. In 1903, upset about 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 then president Theodore Roosevelt in New York.

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1467986275

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Autobiography of Mother Jones

By: Mary Harris Jones

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Autobiography of Mother Jones

By: Mary Harris Jones

This important addition to labor and feminist literature speaks tirelessly and effectively on behalf of workers' rights and unions in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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0486165558

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Autobiography of Mother Jones

By: Mary Harris Jones

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By: Mary Harris Jones

This important addition to labor and feminist literature speaks tirelessly and effectively on behalf of workers' rights and unions in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Hearing the Voices of Jonestown

Putting a Human Face on an American Tragedy

By: Mary McCormick Maaga

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Hearing the Voices of Jonestown

Putting a Human Face on an American Tragedy

By: Mary McCormick Maaga

When over 900 followers of the Peoples Temple religious group committed suicide in 1978, they left a legacy of suspicion and fear. Most accounts of this mass suicide describe the members as brainwashed dupes and overlook the Christian and socialist ideals that originally inspired Peoples Temple members. Hearing the Voices of Jonestown restores the individual voices that have been erased so that we can better understand what was created—and destroyed—at Jonestown, and why. Piecing together information from interviews with former group members, archival research, and diaries and letters of those who died there, Maaga describes the women leaders as educated political activists who were passionately committed to achieving social justice through communal life. The book analyzes the historical and sociological factors that, Maaga finds, contributed to the mass suicide, such as growing criticism from the larger community and the influx of an upper-class, educated leadership that eventually became more concerned with the symbolic effects of the organization than with the daily lives of its members. Hearing the Voices of Jonestown puts human faces on the events at Jonestown, confronting theoretical religious questions, such as how worthy utopian ideals come to meet such tragic and misguided ends.

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Syracuse University Press

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0815605153

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9780815605157

The Dressmaker's War

A Novel

By: Mary Chamberlain

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The Dressmaker's War

A Novel

By: Mary Chamberlain

Originally published in the United Kingdom under the title The dressmaker of Dachau by The Borough Press ... 2015"--Title page verso.

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0812997379

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Looking South

Race, Gender, and the Transformation of Labor from Reconstruction to Globalization

By: Mary E. Frederickson

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Looking South

Race, Gender, and the Transformation of Labor from Reconstruction to Globalization

By: Mary E. Frederickson

In the United States, cheap products made by cheap labor are in especially high demand, purchased by men and women who have watched their own wages decline and jobs disappear. Looking South examines the effects of race, class, and gender in the development of the low-wage, anti-union, and state-supported industries that marked the creation of the New South and now the Global South. Workers in the contemporary Global South--those nations of Central and Latin America, most of Asia, and Africa--live and work within a model of industrial development that materialized in the red brick mills of the New South. As early as the 1950s, this labor model became the prototype used by U.S. companies as they expanded globally. This development has had increasingly powerful effects on workers and consumers at home and around the world. Mary E. Frederickson highlights the major economic and cultural changes brought about by deindustrialization and immigration. She also outlines the events, movements, and personalities involved in the race-, class-, and gender-based resistance to industry’s relentless search for cheap labor.

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University Press of Florida

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0813042941

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9780813042947

The Civil War Era and Reconstruction

An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural and Economic History

By: Mary Ellen Snodgrass

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The Civil War Era and Reconstruction

An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural and Economic History

By: Mary Ellen Snodgrass

The encyclopedia takes a broad, multidisciplinary approach to the history of the period. It includes general and specific entries on politics and business, labor, industry, agriculture, education and youth, law and legislative affairs, literature, music, the performing and visual arts, health and medicine, science and technology, exploration, life on the Western frontier, family life, slave life, Native American life, women, and more than a hundred influential individuals.

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1911

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Routledge

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1317457900

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The Women of the Copper Country

A Novel

By: Mary Doria Russell

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The Women of the Copper Country

A Novel

By: Mary Doria Russell

From the bestselling and award-winning author of The Sparrow comes “historical fiction that feels uncomfortably relevant today” (Kirkus Reviews) about “America’s Joan of Arc”—the courageous woman who started a rebellion by leading a strike against the largest copper mining company in the world. In July 1913, twenty-five-year-old Annie Clements has seen enough of the world to know that it’s unfair. She’s spent her whole life in the mining town of Calumet, Michigan, where men risk their lives for meager salaries—and have barely enough to put food on the table for their families. The women labor in the houses of the elite, and send their husbands and sons deep underground each day, dreading the fateful call of the company man telling them their loved ones aren’t coming home. So, when Annie decides to stand up for the entire town of Calumet, nearly everyone believes she may have taken on more than she is prepared to handle. Yet as Annie struggles to improve the future of her town, her husband becomes increasingly frustrated with her growing independence. She faces the threat of prison while also discovering a forbidden love. On her fierce quest for justice, Annie will see just how much she is willing to sacrifice for the families of Calumet. From one of the most versatile writers in contemporary fiction, this novel is an authentic and moving historical portrait of the lives of the crucial men and women of the early labor movement “with an important message that will resonate with contemporary readers” (Booklist).

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Atria Books

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1982109599

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Protest And Popular Culture

Women In The American Labor Movement

By: Mary Triece

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Protest And Popular Culture

Women In The American Labor Movement

By: Mary Triece

Protest and Popular Culture is at once a historical monograph and a critique of postmodernist approaches to the study of mass media, consumerism, and popular political movements. In it, Triece compares the self-representations of several late nineteenth and twentieth-century women's protest movements with representations of women offered by contemporaneous mass media outlets. She shows that from the late nineteenth century until the present day, U.S. women's protest movements sought to convince women that they are first and foremost laborer/producers, while the U.S. media has just as consistently sought to convince women that they are primarily consumers. Triece contends that these approaches to portraying women have been and continue to be constructed in opposition to one another. The leaders of women's protest movements, she argues, have long sought to convince women not to spend time and money on reshaping their selves through consumer purchases, but instead to focus attention on empowering themselves politically by asserting control over their own labor power. The mass media, meanwhile, has always treated such movements as potential threats to the financial well-being of the consumer sector (that is, of advertisers), and so has consistently trivialized them, while seeking simultaneously to convince women that they should devote attention and resources to buying things, not to struggling to overcome class and gender discrimination. Many cultural-studies scholars have argued that in recent years, rising prosperity has made consumerism into the primary site of both individual expression and ?resistance? to the dominant socio-economic order, with self-definition through personal purchases supplanting the role formerly played by struggle for an end to inequities of all kinds. These scholars contend that as such, mass media no longer function to naturalize, and thus reinforce such inequities, and consumerism no longer serves to perpetuate them. Triece argues that her examples show that this argument is faulty, and that scholars should continue to take a traditional materialist view in all studies of mass media, consumerism, and popular protest.

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Routledge

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0429977611

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9780429977619

Victorian Murderesses

A True History of Thirteen Respectable French and English Women Accused of Unspeakable Crimes

By: Mary S. Hartman

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Victorian Murderesses

A True History of Thirteen Respectable French and English Women Accused of Unspeakable Crimes

By: Mary S. Hartman

Riveting combination of true crime and social history examines a dozen famous cases, offering illuminating details of the accused women's backgrounds, deeds, and trials. "Vividly written, meticulously researched." — Choice.

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0486794938

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Head Games

By: Mary B. Morrison

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Head Games

By: Mary B. Morrison

From childhood games to career challenges, Trymm, Dallas, Kohl, and Blitz have stayed the best of friends - and each others' competition. These bachelors live to party up, sex it down, and get it all. And now they're betting on which of them "date-and-dump" the most women in and a mont - and post the proof on social media. Winner takes all: a cool million dollars. But this game is about to get all-too-real... Trymm has no porblem bedding women looking for quick-and-dirty satisfaction... until he falls hard for one he can't have. A cynical ex-soldier battling PTSD, Dallas woos a hopeful bride to exhaust her savings for picket-fense promises - just to humor his boys. Kohl enjoys his best one-night stand with a mysterious beauty - but his recklessness backfires big time after he exposes her. And Blitz thinks he's giving a powerful Fortune 500 executive the business - until he gets played... Now everything they care about most - money, family, and friendship - is on the line. All the right moves won't keep them safe, especially from each other. And the only way out of the game is to concede or risk everything on a dangerous gamble they can only lose"--Back cover.

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1496710843

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Careful What You Click For

By: Mary B. Morrison

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Careful What You Click For

By: Mary B. Morrison

In her most riveting novel yet, New York Times bestselling author Mary B. Morrison delivers an emotional rollercoaster of a tale of four new friends chasing after their heart's desires, no matter the cost... For Jordan, Victoria, Kingston, and Chancelor, fast-paced Atlanta offers everything their hometowns couldn't. But career success is easy compared to the city's dating scene of users, losers, and gold diggers. So they decide online dating might be the answer--as long as they take precautions, work their perfect odds-beating plan, and have each other's backs. Maybe they'll even find excitement and real love... An accomplished lawyer, Jordan must look hard at potential suitors. But Terrence seems to be the man of her dreams, until accusations and her career threaten to come between them...Sixty-something real estate pro Victoria thinks young men equal the satisfaction that a good Christian woman like her deserves, but anything-goes sex makes her bet more than she can afford to lose...Basketball star Kingston has the perfect life and wife, but exploring what he really wants on the downlow is a game he may not win...And for marketing guru Chancelor, the Net is a paradise of prey, but the consequences could blow more than his schemes apart. Soon enough, all four friends' lives are in danger of being upended. And the results could rack up a price no one can pay.

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1496710924

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9781496710925

Her Way

A Guide to Biographies of Women for Young People

By: Mary-Ellen Siegel

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Her Way

A Guide to Biographies of Women for Young People

By: Mary-Ellen Siegel

A two-part bibliography of over 1700 biographies of more than 1100 notable women throughout history. Part one is arranged alphabetically by subject and includes a short profile of each woman cited; part two consists of collective biographies.

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0838903967

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9780838903964

Art Et Architecture Au Canada

By: Loren Ruth Lerner,Mary F. Williamson

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Art Et Architecture Au Canada

By: Loren Ruth Lerner,Mary F. Williamson

Identifies and summarizes thousands of books, article, exhibition catalogues, government publications, and theses published in many countries and in several languages from the early nineteenth century to 1981.

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0802058566

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Book's by Mary Harris Jones

The Autobiography of Mother Jones

The Autobiography of Mother Jones

Autobiography of Mother Jones

Autobiography of Mother Jones

Autobiography of Mother Jones

Autobiography of Mother Jones

Hearing the Voices of Jonestown

Hearing the Voices of Jonestown

The Dressmaker's War

The Dressmaker's War

Looking South

Looking South

The Civil War Era and Reconstruction

The Civil War Era and Reconstruction

The Women of the Copper Country

The Women of the Copper Country

Protest And Popular Culture

Protest And Popular Culture

Victorian Murderesses

Victorian Murderesses

Head Games

Head Games

Careful What You Click For

Careful What You Click For

Her Way

Her Way

Art Et Architecture Au Canada

Art Et Architecture Au Canada

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