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A lyrical, stirring portrait of the twentieth-century coal miners who fought, undaunted, for the right to unionize their workplaces, culminating in one of the largest labor uprisings in American history: The Battle of Blair Mountain West Virginia, 1921. Coal is king, labor laws are practically...

Perhaps the most famous labor activist and union organizer in history, Mary Harris Jones was an Irish emigre, who watched her husband and four children die of yellow fever, saw her modest dressmaking shop go up in flames in the Great Chicago Fire, and, as a lonely, poor widow in the late 19th century, was facing a bleak future.

-Mary Harris "Mother" Jones (1830-1930) was a fierce and tireless advocate of the labor movement. A trade union organizer, a feminist, and a working class hero, Mother Jones spent years fighting for the labor rights of miners, industrial workers, and children.