Hellraiser

This historical novel is as significant to the present as it is to the past. Hellraiser --Mother Jones: An Historical Novel brings Irish American Mother Jones back to renew the lessons of her history, to understand and compare the economic injustices of her time with the economic inequalities of contemporary life and to enable Mother Jones to once again call her people to action. "If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must man be of learning...
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This historical novel is as significant to the present as it is to the past. Hellraiser --Mother Jones: An Historical Novel brings Irish American Mother Jones back to renew the lessons of her history, to understand and compare the economic injustices of her time with the economic inequalities of contemporary life and to enable Mother Jones to once again call her people to action. "If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must man be of learning from experience." -- George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright and co-founder of the London School of Economics. In history, Mary Harris Jones faces threats and jail terms, bullets and bombs to defend the American worker, the underclass -- men, women and children -- against the greed of robber barons like Ford, Rockefeller, Carnegie, Morgan and Vanderbilt. In the end, the spirit of Mother Jones returns to find an America where economic servitude has shifted from the coal mines and sweatshops of her day to the fast food chains, big box retailers and even the technology industries of ours. Where capitalism has robbed the people of the promises of equality, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness in what was supposed to be a democratic society. Just as she warned 100 years ago. When author Jerry Ash set out to write Hellraiser, he intended to simply gather into one book all that was known and unknown of the 65-year history of Mother Jones' career during the darkest days of the American Industrial Revolution, telling the story in a more intimate fashion. "As it turns out," says Ash, "Mother Jones used the novel to retell her story in a way that gives new perspective, not only to the economic inequalities of the past, but as seen today between the super rich and the working poor."