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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.
Mother Jones (abbreviated MoJo) is a nonprofit American progressive magazine that focuses on news, commentary, and investigative journalism on topics including politics, environment, human rights, health and culture.
Mother Jones’ founders envisioned a magazine devoted to a new brand of socially conscious journalism — one that took on corporate as well as political power. Twenty-five years later, that ...
Mother Jones (abbreviated MoJo) is an American magazine about news, commentary, and investigative reporting on topics such as politics, the environment, human rights, health and culture. Its political views are liberal or progressive. Clara Jeffery is the editor-in-chief of the magazine.
Apr 2, 2014 · Known as the miner's angel, Mother Jones became an active campaigner for the United Mine Workers Union. A political progressive, she was a founder of the Social Democratic Party in 1898.
Founded in 1976, Mother Jones is America’s longest-established investigative news organization. We are based in San Francisco and have bureaus in Washington, DC, and New York. We are...
Mary Harris “Mother” Jones was a fearless fighter for workers’ rights. When she was mocked as the “grandmother of all agitators,” in the U.S. Senate, Mother Jones replied that she would someday like to be called “the great-grandmother of all agitators.”
Apr 30, 2024 · Mother Jones was a labour organizer, widely known in the United States as a fiery agitator for the union rights of coal miners and other workers. In 1871 Jones, the widow of an iron-moulder who had died in 1867 in an epidemic in Memphis, Tennessee, lost all her possessions in the great Chicago.
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Jul 9, 2019 · Mother Jones (born Mary Harris; 1837–November 30, 1930) was a key radical figure in United States labor history. She was a fiery orator, a union agitator for mine workers, and a co-founder of the International Workers of the World (IWW).
