The newspapers called Mother Jones the most dangerous woman in America because her presence at a labor rally would stiffen the resolve of workers. As Professor Simon Cordery relates, she raised "Cain and Consciousness." Prof. Cordery joins me to talk about Jones and her influence on the labor movement in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.

Essential Reading:

Simon Cordery, Mother Jones: Raising Cain and Consciousness (2010).

Recommended Reading:

Philip S. Foner, ed., Mother Jones Speaks: Collected Speeches and Writings (1983).

Edward M. Steel, ed., The Correspondence of Mother Jones (1985).

Thomas G. Andrews, Killing for Coal: America’s Deadliest Labor War (2010).

Melvyn Dubofsky and Joseph A. McCartin, Labor in America: A History (2017).

Elliott J. Gorn, Mother Jones (2001).

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