num_pages: 480
description: A powerful account of the changing role of American black women in the labor force and in the family.
language: English
title: Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present
titlecomplete: Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present
genres: History, Feminism, Womens, African American, American History, Labor, Gender, Race, Nonfiction, Family
ratings_count: 274
awards: awardedAt: 504950400000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: History, awardedAt: 504950400000
name: Bancroft Prize, awardedAt: 473414400000
name: Philip Taft Labor History Book Award, awardedAt: 536486400000
name: Julia Cherry Spruill Prize
publisher: Vintage Books USA