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Bibliography Biography of Mother Jones Elliott J. Gorn, Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America (Hill and Wang, 2002). Short Excerpt from Gorn's book The leading biography of Mother Jones, and the main historian source for our film. Gorn's analysis allows us the best understanding of how Mother Jones created herself within the context of gender norms and labor upheavals, and situates her in the context of the violent response of corporate and state authorities to the miners' search for just living conditions and free speech. Mary Harris Jones, Autobiography of Mother Jones (Charles Kerr, 1999). On-Line edition Mother Jones' life as dictated to Clarence Darrow's secretary. Read alongside Gorn's book it is doubly interesting, both for understanding Gorn's revising of Mother Jones' rendition of her life, but also for the issue of memory and biography itself. For high school students, this is much more engaging than Gorn's book, but students should be cautioned about the issues of biography and memory. Wake, Dorothy L. Mother Jones, Revolutionary Leader of Labor & Social Reform (2001)
Leslie F. Orear, ed. Mother Jones and the Union Miners Cemetery: Mt. Olive, Illinois
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Mother Jones Speeches and Correspondence Philip S. Foner, Mother Jones Speaks: Speeches and Writings of a Working-Class Fighter (Pathfinder Press (NY), 1995).
Edward M. Steel, The Correspondence of Mother Jones (Univ of Pittsburgh Pr (Txt), 1985).
Edward M. Steel, ed. The Speeches and Writings of Mother Jones (Univ of Pittsburgh Pr 1988).
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Repression in labor disputes Stephen H. Norwood, Strikebreaking and Intimidation: Mercenaries and Masculinity in Twentieth-Century America (The University of North Carolina Press, 2002).
Patricia Cayo Sexton. The War on Labor and the Left. (Westview Press, 1992).
Robert Michael Smith. From Blackjacks to Briefcases: A History of Commercialized Strikebreaking and Unionbusting in the United States (2003)
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Ludlow Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States (see also the children's version in that section) Link to excerpt Scott Martelle, Blood Passion: The Ludlow Massacre and Class War in the American West (Rutgers University Press, 2007).
George S. McGovern and Leona Guttridgerd F. , The Great Coalfield War (University Press of Colorado, 1996).
Zeese Papanikolas, Buried Unsung: Louis Tikas and the Ludlow Massacre (University of Nebraska Press, 1991).
Leon Stein, Massacre at Ludlow: four reports (Arno, 1971).
Long, Priscilla Where the Sun Never Shines (Harcourt, 1989)
Anthony DeStefanis, Violence and the Colorado National Gaurd: Masculinity, Race, Class and Identity in the 1913-1914 Southern Colorado Coal Strike
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West Virginia Organizing and Uprisings David Corbin, Life, Work, and Rebellion in the Coal Fields: The Southern West Virginia Miners, 1880-1922 (University of Illinois Press, 1981).
Matewan. A film directed by John Sayles. 1987
Robert Shogun The Battle of Blair Mountain: The Story of America's Largest Labor Uprising
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Books on Mother Jones and related topics for young readers
Penny Colman, Mother Jones and the March of the Mill Children (Millbrook Press, 1994).
Judith Pinkerton Josephson, Mother Jones: Fierce Fighter for Workers' Rights (Lerner Publications, 1996).
Donna Rappaport. Trouble at the Mines
Joan C. Hawxhurst, Mother Jones: Labor Crusader (American Troublemakers series) (Steck-Vaughn, 1993).
Connie Colwell Miller, Mother Jones: Labor Leader (Capstone Press, 2006).
Betsy Harvey Kraft, Mother Jones: One Woman's Fight for Labor (Diane Pub Co, 2006).
Rosemary Laughlin, The Ludlow Massacre of 1913-14 (Morgan Reynolds Publishing, 2006).
Rachel A. Koestler-Grack, The Story of Mother Jones (Chelsea Clubhouse, 2004).
Kathlyn Gay, Mother Jones (Morgan Reynolds Publishing, 2006).
Atkinson, Linda. Mother Jones, the most dangerous woman in America . New York : Crown Publishers, 1978. Howard Zinn and Rebecca Steffoff, A Young People's History of the United States : Class Struggle to the War On Terror (Seven Stories Press, 2007)
Susan Campbell Bartoletti Growing Up in Coal Country
Russell Freedman Kids at Work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade Against Child Labor
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Women and Mining Marat Moore, Women in the Mines: Stories of Life and Work (Twayne Publishers, 1996).
Ron E. Roberts and Carol Cook-Roberts. Mother Jones and Her Sisters: A Century of Women Activists in the American Coal Fields. (Kendall, 1998).
Bonnie Stepenoff, Their Fathers' Daughters: Silk Mill Workers in Northeastern Pennsylvania, 1880-1960 , Susquehanna University Press, 1999 and Bonnie Stepenoff, “Keeping it in the family: Mother Jones and the Pennsylvania Silk Strike of 1900-1901,” Labor History , Fall, 1997; "I'm a Johnny Mitchell Man: Gender and Labor Protest in the Pennsylvania Hard Coal Uprising, 1900-1902," in Mining Women: Gender, Labor, Capital, and Community in a Global Perspective , edited by Laurie Mercier and Jaclyn Gier Viskavotoff, Palgrave/Macmillan, 2006, pp. 181-194
Camille Guerin-Gonzales, "From Ludlow to Camp Solidarity: Women, Men, and Cultures of Solidarity in U.S. Coal Communities, 1912-1990," in Mining Women: Gender in the Development of a Global Industry, 1670 to 2005 ed. Gier and Mercier Deutsch, Sara. No Separate Refuge: Culture, Class, and Gender on an Anglo-Hispanic Frontier in the American Southwest, 1880-1940 (Oxford, 1987) connects gender and community-based activism in the coal fields and has section on Ludlow as well
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Women and the Labor Movement Dorothy Sue Cobble, The Other Women's Movement Workplace Justice and Social Rights in Modern America Alice Kessler-Harris,
In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in 20th-Century America |
Women and mining
Marat Moore, Women in the Mines: Stories of Life and Work (Twayne Publishers, 1996).
Their Fathers' Daughters: Silk Mill Workers in Northeastern Pennsylvania, 1880-1960 , Susquehanna University Press, 1999