Labor of love, labor of sorrow : Black women, work, and the family from slavery to the present / Jacqueline Jones.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jones, Jacqueline, 1948-

Contributor:

Torre, Vincent, designer.

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American women--Employment--History.

African American women.

African American women--History.

History.

African American families--History.

African American families.

African American women--Employment.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered pages, xiii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 432 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Basic Books, Inc., Publishers, 1985.

©1985.

Contents:

"My Mother Was Much of a Woman": Slavery

Freed Women? The Civil War and Reconstruction

A Bridge of "Bent Backs and Laboring Muscles": The Rural South, 1880-1915

"To Get Out of This Land of Sufring": Black Women Migrants to the North, 1900-1930

Harder Times: The Great Depression

The Roots of Two Revolutions, 1940-1955

The Struggle Confirmed and Transformed, 1955-1980

Epilogue: 1984.

Notes:

"Designed by Vincent Torre."

"Jacket design by William Davis. Photo by Dorothea Lange ..."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 406-415) and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.

Banks Collection copy has marker with letter "B: and Black Women's Arts Resource Collective and embossed stamp "JB The Library of Joanna Banks" laid in.

ISBN:

0465037569 :

OCLC:

11399213