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Woman from Spillertown: A Memoir of Agnes Burns Wieck Hardcover - 1991

by David Thoreau Wieck


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Kathryn Kish Sklar calls this work "a major contribution to our historical understanding of the role of women in organizing American miners in the twentieth century."

Agnes Burns Wieck was a crusading labor organizer, an activist known as "the Mother Jones of Illinois." This first book-length biography is a unique portrait of her energy and unremitting dedication to social justice.

Wieck organized miners' wives and led a movement of Illinois coalfield women. She used her talents as a journalist and a public speaker to campaign for a decent standard of living, for good schools and working conditions in communities free of corporate domination, and for union democracy, racial equality, and acceptance of women in political life.

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  • Title Woman from Spillertown: A Memoir of Agnes Burns Wieck
  • Author David Thoreau Wieck
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition FIRST EDITION
  • Pages 296
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Southern Illinois University Press, CARBONDALE, IL
  • Date December 10, 1991
  • ISBN 9780809316199 / 0809316196
  • Weight 1.31 lbs (0.59 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.74 x 5.76 x 1.09 in (22.20 x 14.63 x 2.77 cm)
  • Reading level 1250
  • Themes
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress subjects Labor unions - United States, Labor unions - United States - Officials and
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 90024460
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

About the author

David Thoreau Wieck is professor emeritus of philosophy at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

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