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by Lu Ann Jones

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Farm women of the twentieth-century South have been portrayed as oppressed, worn out, and isolated. Lu Ann Jones tells quite a different story in Mama Learned Us to Work. Building upon evocative oral histories, she encourages us to understand these women as consumers, producers, and agents of economic and cultural change.

As consumers, farm women bargained with peddlers at their backdoors. A key business for many farm women was the "butter and egg trade" -- small-scale dairying and raising chickens. Their earnings provided a crucial margin of economic safety for many families during the 1920s and 1930s and offered women some independence from their men folks. These innovative women showed that poultry production paid off and laid the foundation for the agribusiness poultry industry that emerged after World War II. Jones also examines the relationships between farm women and home demonstration agents and the effect of government-sponsored rural reform. She discusses the professional culture that developed among white agents as they reconciled new and old ideas about women's roles and shows that black agents, despite prejudice, linked their clients to valuable government resources and gave new meanings to traditions of self-help, mutual aid, and racial uplift.

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FEW STRANGERS CROSSED the hardscrabble landscape that Harry Crews evoked in his memoir of childhood in south Georgia during the 1930s and 1940s.

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  • Title Mama Learned Us to Work: Farm Women in the New South
  • Author Lu Ann Jones
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 272
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of North Carolina Press
  • Publication date 2002-09-16
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780807853849 / 0807853844
  • Weight 0.73 lbs (0.33 kg)
  • Dimensions 8 x 6.4 x 0.63 in (20.32 x 16.26 x 1.60 cm)
  • Reading level 1490
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Cultural Region: South
    • Demographic Orientation: Rural
    • Demographic Orientation: Urban
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Category Sociology
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2001059761
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.436

About the author

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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