Blake Gumprecht’s “North to Boston, Life Histories from the Black Great Migration in New England” focuses on ten men and women who grew up in the South and came to Boston in the 1950s and 1960s. (The years of the Great Migration are generally recognized as 1915 to 1970). Some of the ten came to live in Dorchester and Mattapan, and three are still here. The personal histories
In one corner of the room sits a large pile of laundry waiting for a wash while in another corner there’s the home office and a big work project with a looming deadline. In yet another other room, a couch beckons with the temptation of a morning nap and a Netflix binge session. This is the common 24-hour friction between home and work life that has remote workers looking for