This article is about the labor organizer. For the magazine, see Mother Jones (magazine).
Mother Jones
Jones in 1902
Born
Mary G. Harris
Cork, Ireland
Baptized
August 1, 1837
Died
November 30, 1930 (aged 93)
Silver Spring, Maryland, U.S.
Resting place
Union Miners Cemetery Mount Olive, Illinois
Occupations
Union organizer
community organizer
activist
schoolteacher
dressmaker
Political party
Social Democratic (1898–1901) Socialist (from 1901)
Mary G. Harris Jones (1837 (baptized) – November 30, 1930), known as Mother Jones from 1897 onward, was an Irish-born American labor organizer, former schoolteacher, and dressmaker who became a prominent union organizer, community organizer, and activist. She helped coordinate major strikes, secure bans on child labor, and co-founded the socialist trade union, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).
After Jones's husband and four children all died of yellow fever in 1867 and her dress shop was destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, she became an organizer for the Knights of Labor and the United Mine Workers union. In 1902, she was called "the most dangerous woman in America" for her success in organizing miners and their families against the mine owners.[1] In 1903, to protest the lax enforcement of the child labor laws in the Pennsylvania mines and silk mills, she organized a children's march from Philadelphia to the home of President Theodore Roosevelt in New York.
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