Mother Jones (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Linda Mae Atkinson
- First Published: 1978
- Time of Work: 1830–1930
- Setting: Memphis, Chicago, West Virginia, and Colorado
- Principal Characters: Mary “Mother” Jones, Terence Powderly, Eugene V. Debs, George Jones, John D. Rockefeller
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Social action, Social reform, Gender roles, Labor, Labor unions, Biography, Unions or unionism
- Locales: Chicago, IL, Memphis, TN, Colorado, West Virginia
Form and Content
Linda Mae Atkinson’s Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America is an illustrated biography of Mary “Mother” Jones, a history text, and a sociology text. Using many moving black-and-white photographs, Atkinson’s illustrated biography portrays the dramatic life of union organizer and activist Jones as she journeyed from County Cork, Ireland, where she was born in 1830, to Washington, D.C., where she died in 1930. Her courageous, inspiring life is narrated in an exciting fifteen chapters, each of which concentrates on controversial incidents...
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