Strike!

Mother Jones & the Colorado Coal Field War

By: Lois Ruby

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Paperback | 19 February 2024

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226 Pages

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When the bloodiest labor dispute in U.S. history burst forth in 1913 in the coal fields of Southern Colorado, the miners knew whom to praise and the owners knew whom to blame. Mary Harris, known from New York to Colorado as Mother Jones, could incite a riot or calm a crowd with her powerful oratory.Mary Harris "Mother" Jones dedicated her life to helping workers organize unions to negotiate, even demand, better wages and working conditions. In the Colorado Coal Field War, did her call to STRIKE! help or harm? Were the deaths of mothers and children at Ludlow too high a price to pay for unionizing? "It is extremely important that readers of all ages know what happened at Ludlow, and the role played by that spectacular rabble-rouser, Mother Jones. Lois Ruby has told this gripping story with just the right balance of fact and dramatic power. The eyes of the nation were on southern Colorado in 1914, when much that has made America what it is--the lives of immigrants, the conflict between corporate power and organized labor--lay in the balance. This story will speak to our time as provocatively as it spoke a century ago, and this book will engage and inform anyone who gives it attention." -DAVID MASON, Colorado Poet Laureate

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"It is extremely important that readers of all ages know what happened at Ludlow, and the role played by that spectacular rabble-rouser, Mother Jones. Lois Ruby has told this gripping story with just the right balance of fact and dramatic power. The eyes of the nation were on southern Colorado in 1914, when much that has made America what it is-the lives of immigrants, the conflict between corporate power and organized labor-lay in the balance. This story will speak to our time as provocatively as it spoke a century ago, and this book will engage and inform anyone who gives it attention."

-David Mason, Colorado Poet Laureate

"Strike! Mother Jones and the Colorado Coal War is a book I would recommend to teachers, especially to those teaching about Colorado at any grade level, and to students in middle and high school. It is a book not only about Colorado but also about workers' rights, collective bargaining, the United Mine Workers, and the development of labor laws in the United States."

-Susan Andrews, History Colorado Review

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