The Radical Life of Mother Jones

Mary Jones’ early years had ended tragically. Born in Ireland, where her family had always fought against the English occupiers, she arrived as a child first in Canada, then in the USA. She became a teacher, then a seamstress. “I preferred sewing to commanding little children around!”, she wrote. She married George Jones, an iron caster and a man active in the labor unions just being formed in those years. But in 1867 a terrible yellow fever epidemic, hitting working-class areas the worst, took all her four children, one after the other, and then her husband as well. More

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