Labor Management Relationships Evolution
Discussion question Evolution of Labor-Management Relationships
Analyze the life of a Labor Relations activist. What were his or her successes and failures? What factors do you think accounted for his or her successes and failures? What impact did he or she have on organized labor? Why? Do you agree or disagree with his or her philosophy and the solutions he or she offered? Support your views.
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Mary Harris Jones
Mary Harris Jones also famously known as Mother Jones was born in 1830 in Ireland in a county known as Cork. An Irish Potato Famine befell her and her family and had to flee to Canada where she attended her education and later became a teacher as well as a dressmaker. However, she experienced great tragedies in her life such as losing all her children and husband in a yellow fever outbreak in 1867. This triggered her to become a labor activist where she inspired striking Knights and got the opportunity to travel to different coal mining sites and in railroad works mainly in Pennsylvania between 1873 and 1877. Her biggest failure is when she organized for a strike in West Virginia that turned violent. At age eighty-two then, she was arrested and sentenced for twenty years in…
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