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Maid : hard work, low pay, and a mother's will to survive / Stephanie Land ; foreword Barbara Ehrenreich.
While the gap between upper middle-class Americans and the working poor widens, grueling low-wage domestic and service work, primarily done by women, fuels the economic success of the wealthy. Stephanie Land worked for years as a maid, pulling long hours while struggling as a single mom to keep a roof over her daughter's head. In Maid, she reveals the dark truth of what it takes to survive and thrive in today's inequitable society. While she worked hard to scratch her way out of poverty as a single parent, scrubbing the toilets of the wealthy, navigating domestic labor jobs, higher education, assisted housing, and a tangled web of government assistance, Stephanie wrote. She wrote the true stories that weren't being told. The stories of overworked and underpaid Americans. Written in honest, heart-rending prose and with great insight, Maid explores the underbelly of upper-middle class America and the reality of what it's like to be in service to them.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780316505116 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 0316505110 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: xiv, 270 pages ; 24 cm.
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Hachette Books, 2019.
- Copyright: ©2019.
Content descriptions
| Formatted Contents Note: | The cabin -- The camper -- Transitional housing -- The Fairgrounds apartment -- Seven different kinds of government assistance -- The farm -- The last job on earth -- The porn house -- The move-out clean -- Henry's house -- The studio -- Minimalist -- Wendy's house -- The plant house -- The chef's house -- Donna's house -- In three years -- The sad house -- Lori's house -- "I don't know how you do it" -- The clown house -- Still life with Mia -- Do better -- The bay house -- The hardest worker -- The hoarder house -- We're home. |
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| Subject: | Land, Stephanie. Single mothers. Women household employees > United States > Biography. Working class > United States > Biography. Working poor > United States. Poverty > United States. |
| Genre: | Autobiographies. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
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| Downtown Library | POPULAR READS LAN (Text) | 33109010296929 | Popular Reads | Volume hold | Checked out | 2024-11-30 |
