Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow is a sweeping history of the toilsome lives of Black women, uniformly overworked and underpaid yet fully committed to their home lives. Two years earlier, the book won the Bancroft Prize and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History. The person we were most excited about, a veritable superstar who was presenting, was Jacqueline Jones, the author of Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present (Vintage Books, 1985). A first year history MA student, I was joined by a classmate, and both of us were eager to catch a glimpse of some of the authors of books assigned in our courses. In 1988, I attended my first major academic conference, the annual meeting of the American Studies Association, held in Miami Beach. It is republished here with permission from the AHA.
Temple Chair in Women’s History Emerita, at the University of Texas at Austin and President of the American Historical Association, 2021.
It celebrates the remarkable career of Jacqueline Jones, Ellen C. Note: This profile was first published as part of the 2022 Annual Meeting Presidential Address by the American Historical Association. Davis, Professor of History and Rothman Family Chair in the Humanities, University of Florida All future studies of the black worker will have to take this book into account.By Jack E. Huggins "A seminal work of scholarship, which has no rival in its subtle explication of the complex interface of work, sex, race and class. It is a major contribution to American social history and should be required reading for everyone who cares about the progress of justice and equality in America." - Coretta Scott King "Jacqueline Jones's excellent study takes us far into the implications of the broad social differences between the black and the white experiences in America." - Nathan I. In so doing she has turned an are light on several dark and unexplored corners." - Toni Morrison, The New York Times Book Review "A remarkable, inspiring work.which reveals important truths about our society. Rather than simply looking at data, Miss Jones sees them. Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow exorcises several malignant stereotypes and stubborn myths, it is free of the sexism and racism it describes, and it interprets old data in new ways. Winner Of The Brown Publication Prize Of The Association Of Black Women Historians "Brilliant, bedrock scholarship crucial to our understanding of the crisis of the black family in the 1980's." - Los A Angeles Times "A valuable contribution.on several counts.
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