Background
Jones, Jacqueline was born in 1948.
( “Jones’s painstakingly researched volume is an invaluab...)
“Jones’s painstakingly researched volume is an invaluable antidote to those who argue that our shameful past has no relevance to our perplexing present.” ―David Kusnet, Baltimore Sun This is history at its best―the epic, often tragic story of success and failure on the uneven playing fields of American labor, rooted in painstaking research and passionately alive to its present-day implications for a just society. Jacqueline Jones shows unmistakably how nearly every significant social transformation in American history (from bound to free labor, from farm work to factory work, from a blue-collar to a white-collar economy) rolled back the hard-won advances of those African Americans who had managed to gain footholds in various jobs and industries. This is a story not of simple ideological "racism" but of politics and economics interacting to determine what kind of work was "suitable" for which groups. Here is a "useful and sobering" (Kirkus Reviews) account of why the connection between success and the work ethic was severed long ago for a substantial number of Americans. American Work goes far beyond the easy sloganeering of the current debates on affirmative action and welfare versus workfare to inform those debates with rich historical context and compelling insight.
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(In this concise historical narrative, Jacqueline Jones pr...)
In this concise historical narrative, Jacqueline Jones provides a sweeping account of the most significant aspect of nearly every Americana s life.
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( The forces that shaped the institution of slavery in th...)
The forces that shaped the institution of slavery in the American South endured, albeit in altered form, long after slavery was abolished. Toiling in sweltering Virginia tobacco factories or in the kitchens of white families in Chicago, black women felt a stultifying combination of racial discrimination and sexual prejudice. And yet, in their efforts to sustain family ties, they shared a common purpose with wives and mothers of all classes. In Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow, historian Jacqueline Jones offers a powerful account of the changing role of black women, lending a voice to an unsung struggle from the depths of slavery to the ongoing fight for civil rights.
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( Soldiers of Light and Love is an acclaimed study of the...)
Soldiers of Light and Love is an acclaimed study of the reform-minded northerners who taught freed slaves in the war-torn Reconstruction South. Jacqueline Jones's book, first published in 1980, focuses on the nearly three hundred women who served in Georgia in the chaotic decade following the Civil War. Commissioned by the American Missionary Association and other freedmen's aid societies, these middle-class New Englanders saw themselves as the postbellum, evangelical heirs of the abolitionist cause. Specific in compass, but wide-ranging in significance, Soldiers of Light and Love illuminates the complexity of class, race, and gender issues in early Victorian America.
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Jones, Jacqueline was born in 1948.
Bachelor in American Studies, University Delaware, 1970. Master of Arts in History, University Wisconsin, 1972. Doctor of Philosophy in History, University Wisconsin, 1976.
Assistant professor Wellesley College, 1976-1982, associate professor, from 1982, professor. Now professor American civilization, chair department history Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts.
( “Jones’s painstakingly researched volume is an invaluab...)
(In this concise historical narrative, Jacqueline Jones pr...)
( Soldiers of Light and Love is an acclaimed study of the...)
( The forces that shaped the institution of slavery in th...)
Member Organization of America Historians, Southern Association for Women Historians, National Women's Studies Association.
Married Jeffrey B. Abramson, May 18, 1980. Children: Sarah, Anna.