01945cam a2200349 i 4500 282985022 TxAuBib 20120510120000.0 860501s1985||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 85040860 9780394745367 paperback $13.00 0394745361 paperback $13.00 TxAuBib rda Jones, Jacqueline, 1948- Labor of love, labor of sorrow : black women, work and the family, from slavery to the present / Jacqueline Jones. 1st Vintage Books ed. New York : Vintage Books, a division of Random House, [1985] ©1985. xiii, 432 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Reprint. Originally published: New York : Basic Books, c1985. Includes bibliographical references (pages 406-416) and index. Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- "My mother was much of a women": slavery -- Freed women? the Civil War and Reconstruction -- A bridge of "bent backs and laboring muscles": the rural south, 1880-1915 -- Between the cotton field and the 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 Depression -- The roots of two revolutions, 1940-1955 -- The struggle confirmed and transformed, 1955-1980 -- Epilogue: 1984 -- Appendices -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Index. 20120510. African American women Employment History. African American women History. African American families History. Mississippiana. Lange, Dorothea.