Autobiography of Mother Jones

Mary Harris Jones (1837–1930)

Read by Scott Henkel, Elizabeth McAndrew, Heather Lambert and 6 others

5h 39m · 27 chapters

Mother Jones (Mary Harris Jones) was a legendary labor organizer. She was a founding member of the International Workers of the World (the IWW, or the Wobblies), and was active in the United Mine Workers and the Socialist Party of America. (Summary by Denny)

Chapters

1. 1The Early Years8 min
2. 2The Haymarket Tragedy9 min
3. 3A Strike in Virginia5 min
4. 4Wayland's Appeal to Reason2 min
5. 5Victory at Arnot, Pennsylvania14 min
6. 6War in West Virginia11 min
7. 7A Human Judge9 min
8. 8Roosevelt Sent for John Mitchell9 min
9. 9Murder in West Virginia10 min
10. 10March of the Mill Children18 min
11. 11Those Mules Won't Scab Today7 min
12. 12How the Women Mopped Up Coaldale6 min
13. 13The Cripple Creek Strike35 min
14. 14Child Labor31 min
15. 15Moyer, Haywood and Pettibone7 min
16. 16The Mexican Revolution13 min
17. 17How the Women Sang Themselves Out of Jail4 min
18. 18Victory in West Virginia30 min
19. 19Guards and Gunmen5 min
20. 20Governor Hunt, Human and Just8 min
21. 21In Rockefeller's Prisons23 min
22. 22You Don't Need a Vote to Raise Hell13 min
23. 23In a West Virginia Prison Camp4 min
24. 24The Steel Strike of 191923 min
25. 25Struggle and Lose: Struggle and Win6 min
26. 26Medieval West Virginia4 min
27. 27Progress in Spite of Leaders10 min

Recording: LibriVox · public domain