Abstract
The ongoing mechanization of the agricultural industry coupled with the significant shifts in the relations of production drive many former agricultural laborers to the already industrialized North in turn of the century America. Though typically referenced as a Black migration period, the four decades before the U.S. entry into World War II see tremendous migration of both Whites and Blacks, who are unable to thrive in the new South. As a result of this migration of Blacks and Whites, as well as primarily European immigrants, by the onset of the Great Depression of the 1930s, the United States finds itself with an overabundance of labor and little to no labor demand. As a result of these changes in the national economy, there is an end to the previously high demand for Black labor. At this point, Black women’s reproduction of the primary labor pool is no longer tantamount to economic success and in fact becomes a national concern.
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