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Maid : hard work, low pay, and a mother's will to survive  Cover Image Book Book

Maid : hard work, low pay, and a mother's will to survive

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.

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  • ISBN: 0316505110 (hardcover)
  • ISBN: 9780316505116 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: xiv, 270 pages ; 24 cm
    print
  • Publisher: New York : Hachette Books, 2019.

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Formatted Contents Note: Foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich -- Part 1. 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 -- Part 2. 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 -- Part 3. Do better ; The bay house ; The hardest worker ; The hoarder house ; We're home.
Subject: Women Biography
Poverty United States
Working poor
Single mothers United States
Working class United States Biography
Women household employees United States
Land, Stephanie

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  • 2 of 2 copies available at North Wales Area.

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North Wales Area Library 331.4 Land (Text) 35410000707372 NWAL Non-Fiction Available -
North Wales Area Library 331.4 Land (Text) 35410000741041 NWAL Non-Fiction Available -

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