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Related: About this forumThe Autobiography of Mother Jones (LibriVox audiobook)
Several years ago, someone on DU posted the audio chapters (I think in this forum) for this autobiography written by Mother Jones herself, which is in the Public Domain. I started listening and ended up listening to the entire thing, chapter by chapter, completely engrossed. It took a couple days to get through it back then (was still working at the time) but the time spent was well worth it.
The whole thing in one video was just posted this year (the above) so in honor of Labor Day, please take a listen if/when/as you can. There are various narrators throughout for the different chapters but the entire book is read.
appalachiablue
(41,177 posts)The Children's March and Mother Jones. In the spring of 1903, in Kensington, Penn. 75,000 textile workers including 10,000 children were on strike for better pay and working conditions.
"Pray for the dead, and fight like hell for the living." ~ Mother Jones (1837-1930)
BumRushDaShow
(129,541 posts)(still called "Kensington" ) where that took place.
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On July 7, 1903, Mother Jones and her sign-carrying childrens army embarked on a 92-mile March of the Mill Children, departing the physical and spiritual home of organized textile labor in Philadelphia: the Kensington Labor Lyceum at 2nd and Cambria Streets. Destination: the Long Island, New York vacation home of President Theodore Roosevelt. The trek would become famous, if its impact was delayed. Not until 1909 did the state raise the minimum age of employment to 14 and reduce the work week to 58 hours.
https://www.phillyhistory.org/blog/index.php/2014/05/mother-jones-and-the-fight-against-child-labor-in-kensingtons-textile-mills/
And more here: https://www.phillyhistory.org/blog/index.php/2014/06/the-labor-lyceum-movement-in-philadelphia/
Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)What we really have here is an audiobook of the complete text. The audio can be downloaded at the LibriVox website: https://librivox.org/the-autobiography-of-mother-jones-by-mary-harris-jones/
At that link you can download the whole book, or selected any particular chapter(s) in which you're interested.
The feature I like most is downloading an audiobook to a smart phone and listening when I can't read, such as while out running errands. Technical stuff about download options is here.
I didn't know that it was up on YouTube. It's good that the audiobook is available there, but no one should expect any video beyond looking at the cover for five hours.
BumRushDaShow
(129,541 posts)so that you won't have to go through what you suggested, which is what I had done before this version was posted. This is why my OP title says "audiobook".
I.e., this version consolidated all of the recordings and was just uploaded this year (2018). I had done the chapter by chapter listening from LibriVox several years ago after I saw the individual chapters also uploaded on youtube & Librivox, where it was tricky to do because I had to make sure that I picked out each recording in the series in order.
I would hope no one would assume that an "audiobook" has some sort of video associated with it. That's not how they normally work (although I expect some audiobooks might offer a related video component). There are millions of songs on youtube that are not actual "moving videos" and just have a still picture of the artist or record or whatever. I suppose the audiobook could have been uploaded to Soundcloud, which is audio-only, but Soundcloud has its own foibles.