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-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American women--Employment--History.

African American women.

African American women--History.

African American families--History.

African American families.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (477 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Basic Books, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Bancroft Prize-winning classic, now completely revised and updated

Contents:

CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS FOR THE 1985 EDITION; PREFACE TO THE NEW EDITION; INTRODUCTION; One "My Mother Was Much of a Woman": Slavery, 1830-1860; Two Enslaved Women Becoming Freedwomen:The Civil War and Reconstruction; Three "Bent Backs and Laboring Muscles": in the Rural South, 1880-1915; Four Between the Southern Cotton Field and the Northern Ghetto: The Urban South, 1880-1915; Five "To Get Out of This Land of Sufring": Black Women Migrants to the North,1900-1930; Six Harder Times: The Great Depression; Seven The Roots of Two Revolutions, 1940-1955

Eight The Struggle Confirmed and Transformed, 1955-1980Nine Crosscurrents of Past and Present, 1980-2009; Appendix A; Appendix B; Appendix C; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-44956-7

9786612449567

0-465-02110-7

OCLC:

609855107