Mother Jones
Historic union organizer
Mother Jones is the nickname of Mary Harris Jones (1837–1930), an Irish-American labor organizer famous for her fiery speeches and advocacy for coal miners and child laborers.
She was called "the most dangerous woman in America" by opponents.
The name also refers to *Mother Jones*, an American progressive magazine founded in 1976 and named in her honor: I read that piece in Mother Jones.
- socialistProponent of collective ownership
- organizerArrangement tool or person
- child laborMinors performing paid work
- activismDirect effort for reform
- muckrakingInvestigative reporting on corruption
child workers · labor · union · protests · rabble-rouser · firebrand · hellraiser · magazine · strikes · picket lines · working conditions · fair wages · mining disasters · labor movements · labor rights · rallies · journalist · United States
- magazinesmagazine, issue, periodical, publication, design magazine
- media outletsNPR, newspaper, magazine, news channel, tv station
- American SocialismSocialist Party, democratic socialism, Bernie Sanders, Sanders, socialist
- AppalachiaAppalachian culture, Blue Ridge, Appalachian Trail, Cumberland, Great Smoky Mountains
- Appalachian NotablesDolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Chris Stapleton, Patsy Cline, Wynonna Judd
- labor historyAFL-CIO, workers, labor movement, CIO, laborers
Mother JonesAndrew Carnegie
Scottish-American steel magnate
John D. Rockefeller · robber barons · union buster · strikebreaker · strikebreakers
Mother JonesCalvin Coolidge
Herbert Hoover · plutocrats · Ayn Rand · plutocrat · anti-socialist
Mother JonesSamuel Gompers