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The real life working-class hero Mary “Mother” Jones now has her own virtual museum that documents the struggles, victories and history of the woman once dubbed “America’s Most Dangerous Woman.”
The online Mother Jones Museum is the featured item in our newest collection of Cool Tools—the latest selection of books, DVDs, websites and other media with a working-class bent. Cool Tools also highlights three books and a DVD on Latina sweatshop workers’ struggles and victories.
The Mother Jones Museum describes itself as a “virtual museum and curricula about the amazing labor agitator.” It includes links to her entire autobiography and other documents about militant labor history. As the site states:
We believe that she still has something to teach us after all these years.
One page features my favorite Mother Jones quote:
I asked a man in prison once, how he happened to be there, and he said he had stolen loaf of bread. I told him if he had stolen a railroad, he’d be a U.S. senator.
Click here to visit the Mother Jones Museum.
On the book front, Alan Wolfe’s “The Future of Liberalism” is a journey through the history and spirit of what he calls “the most appropriate political philosophy for our times.” While only 21 percent of Americans call themselves “liberal” a vast majority support workers’ rights, universal health care, civil rights, Social Security-programs and ideas birthed by liberals. Available from powells.com.
In “Come Home, America,” journalist William Greider dissects the global trading system, the triumph of free-market ideology, the contamination of democracy by special interests and more of the nation’s biggest problems. But he believes everyday working people can fight back and restore justice and fairness to our economic/political world. Available from The Union Shop Online.TM
Early labor history in America is marked by some vicious, hard-fought battles by workers who sometimes won and sometimes lost, but who always laid the groundwork for many of the rights and economic justice we have today. Sidney Lens’s classic “Labor Wars,” recently reissued by Haymarket Books, takes us from the Molly Maguires to struggles by autoworkers and steelworkers in the first half of the 20th century.
Los Angeles may be known for its glitz and glamour, but “Made in L.A.,” shows us one of its dirty secrets-sweatshops. The documentary tells the story of three Latina garment sweatshop workers. Sick and tired of low-pay for 12 hour-days in abysmal working conditions with abusive bosses, the trio fights back, leading a boycott and three-year struggle that transforms their lives.
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