Displaying 1 of 1 2019 Title: Maid : hard work, low pay, and a mother's will to survive Author: Land, Stephanie, 1978- author. Format: Book Publisher, Date: New York : Hachette Books, 2019. 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: Land, Stephanie, 1978- Women household employees -- United States -- Biography. Working class -- United States -- Biography. Single mothers -- United States -- Biography. Working poor -- United States. Poverty -- United States. Genre: Autobiographies. Other Author: Ehrenreich, Barbara, writer of foreword. 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. ISBN 0316505110 Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Find It Map It Suggestions and more Large Cover Image Librarian's View Displaying 1 of 1
