| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.3

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Book Review

Mama Learned Us to Work: Farm Women in the New South. By Lu Ann Jones. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xvi, 250 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2716-9. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-5384-4.)

In Mama Learned Us to Work, Lu Ann Jones presents a story of the various ways women in the rural South carved out social and economic niches for themselves during the pre–and post–New Deal eras. The book portrays relationships women developed within the market economy, family, and community with variations according to race and class. Relying mostly on oral histories from 1986 to 1991, Jones primarily utilizes the experiences of North Carolinian white women who belonged to families who owned and operated their farms or who rented land to show how farm women's work evolved from their roles as daughters, wives, mothers, and economic contributors.

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