Labor of love, labor of sorrow black women, work and the family, from slavery to the present / Jacqueline Jones.
| Author/creator | Jones, Jacqueline, 1948- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York, NY : Basic Books, |
| Description | xvi, 440 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | "My mother was such a woman" : slavery, 1830-1860 -- Enslaved women becoming freedwomen : the Civil War and reconstruction -- "Bent backs and laboring muscles" : in the rural South, 1880-1915 -- Between the Southern cotton field and the Northern ghetto : the urban 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 -- Crosscurrents of past and present, 1980-2009. |
| General note | Rev. ed. of: Labor of love, labor of sorrow. 1985. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2009031903 |
| ISBN | 9780465018819 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0465018815 (alk. paper) |