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A virtual museum and curricula about the amazing labor agitator, Mother Jones

Links

Links to Websites about Mother Jones and the Labor Movement

Labor History Links-- over 1000 links to labor history materials, including much material on mining, Ludlow, repression, radicals in the labor movement, and other topics

Scott Martelle's website, with links to events and context of Ludlow

A short biographical sketch of Mother Jones from the Illinois Labor History Society

Short chronology of her life (my own will be posted in the future)

Songs from our documentary

“Keeping it in the family: Mother Jones and the Pennsylvania Silk Strike of 1900-1901,”

Labor History , Fall, 1997 by Bonnie Stepenoff

Their Fathers' Daughters: Silk Mill Workers in Northeastern Pennsylvania, 1880-1960 , Susquehanna University Press, 1999

The issue for Jones was "not the injustice of paying such low wages to silk workers, but the injustice of employing [wives and mothers] in the mills [at all]. The solution became, not a better deal for the female workers, but a better deal for the fathers, who, in Jones's view, should support them." 5

"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