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Maid : hard work, low pay, and a mother's will to survive
- Title
- Maid : hard work, low pay, and a mother's will to survive / Stephanie Land ; foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich.
- Author
- Land, Stephanie
- Publication
- New York : Hachette Books, 2019.
- ©2019
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 19-5666 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xiv, 270 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- A journalist describes the years she worked in low-paying domestic work under wealthy employers, contrasting the privileges of the upper-middle class to the realities of the overworked laborers supporting them.
- Subjects
- Women household employees
- Single mothers
- Working class
- Working poor
- Poverty
- Land, Stephanie
- Working poor > United States
- Women household employees > United States > Biography
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women
- Poverty > United States
- Nonfiction
- Autobiographies
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity
- Biography
- Single mothers > United States > Biography
- United States
- Working class > United States > Biography
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness
- Genre/Form
- Nonfiction.
- Autobiographies.
- Biography.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-5666
- ISBN
- 9780316505116
- 0316505110
- LCCN
- 2018954908
- OCLC
- 1105297385
- Author
- Land, Stephanie, author.
- Title
- Maid : hard work, low pay, and a mother's will to survive / Stephanie Land ; foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich.
- Publisher
- New York : Hachette Books, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-5666