Autobiography of Mother Jones

Biographies & Memoirs

Mary Harris Jones

Community & Culture

Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company

Lucy Parsons’ life energy was directed toward freeing the working class from capitalism. She attributed the inferior position of women and minority racial groups in American society to class inequalities and argued, as Eugene Debs later did, that blacks were oppressed because they were poor, not because they were black. Lucy favored the availability of birth control information and contraceptive devices. She believed that under socialism women would have the right to divorce and remarry without economic, political and religious constraints; that women would have the right to limit the number of children they would have; and that women would have the right to prevent legalized” rape in marriage. Lucy Parsons’ life expressed the anger of the unemployed workers, women, and minorities against oppression and is exemplary of radicals’ efforts to organize the working class for social change.” From the preface Lucy Parsons, who the Chicago police considered more dangerous than a thousand rioters,” was an early American radical who defied all the conventions of her turbulent era as an outspoken woman of color, writer, and labor organizer. Parsons’ life as activist spanned the era of the Robber Barons through the Great Depression, during which she actively campaigned and organized for the emancipation of the working class from wage slavery. Parsons courageously led the defense campaign for the Haymarket martyrs,” including her husband Albert Parsons. Ashbaugh’s biography takes a giant leap toward reinterpreting the role of women in American history.

Lucy Parsons: American Revolutionary

Carolyn Ashbaugh

Historical

Within the Shell of the Old: Essays on Workers' Self Organization (A Salute to George Rawick)

There's "Them." And then there's "Us." Fortunately for Us, Gary Huck and Mike Konopacki are not with Them. Which makes sense, of course, since we're not talking about the Best Cartoonists of Big Business. Let the dozens - and dozens - of cartoonists who waffle on foreign policy issues and refuse to acknowledge the realities of a class society, battle it out for that title. These guys are LABOR's Best Cartoonists. No contest. They've taken their stand in the Them-vs.-Us conflict that's often - but not often enough - referred to as the class struggle. Their art reflects how they feel about the working class and what they think of the politicians and bosses who comprise that powerful and dangerous minority that rules America. Their cartoons speak directly to working people: pointedly addressing their needs and desires while exposing - with wit, whimsy and irony - the empty rhetoric, shameful greed, and conniving lies of the politicians and bosses who serve the interests of the rich. Their cartoons make us laugh and help us keep our sanity at the same time that they urge us into battle to create a better world. [From the Foreword by Michael Funke]

Them: More Labor Cartoons by Gary Huck and Mike Konopacki!

Mike Konopacki

Gary Huck

The Flivver King: A Story Of Ford-America

The Flivver King stands among the finest of modern American historical novels. It is history as it ought to be written - from the bottom up and the top down, with monumental sensitivity to the compromise and conflict between the two extremes. Its two stories - those of Henry Ford and Ford-worker Abner Shutt, unfold side by side, indeed dialectically. They are, in the end, one story: the saga of class and culture in 'Ford-America'. Workers and bosses, flappers and Klansmen, war and depression, Prohibition outlaws and high-society parties, unions and anti-union gun thugs - few aspects of American life in the first four decades of the last century are missing from this small masterpiece. The Flivver King sustains the same sure grasp of working class life which characterized Sinclair's earlier classic, The Jungle, but much less sentimentally and with a steadier focus on how alienated work breeds not only degradation but also resistance and revolt. Originally written in 1937 to aid the United Automobile Workers' organizing drive, The Flivver King answers the question "Why do we need a union?" with quiet eloquence. The Charles H. Kerr Company has reissued it as a great American novel and an important historical document, because that question has never gone away and is now more vital than ever. With an introduction from Steve Meyer.

The Flivver King: A Story of Ford-America

SINCLAIR, UPTON

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