Mama Learned Us to Work by Lu Ann Jones
Farm women of the 20th century have been portrayed as oppressed, worn out and isolated. Building upon oral histories, Lu Ann Jones presents these women as consumers, producers and agents of economic and cultural change.
"Lu Ann Jones's exhaustive research and careful analysis vividly recreates country life in the first half of the twentieth centuryMama Learned Us to Work focuses on the hopes, dreams, and immense resourcefulness of southern rural women, who were at the center of sweeping rural transformation." - Pete Daniel, author of Lost Revolutions: The South in the 1950s
Lu Ann Jones is associate professor of history at the University of South Florida. She is a coauthor of Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780807853849 |
| ISBN 10 | 0807853844 |
| Title | Mama Learned Us to Work |
| Author | Lu Ann Jones |
| Series | Studies In Rural Culture |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | The University of North Carolina Press |
| Year published | 2002-09-30 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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