Maid : hard work, low pay, and a mother's will to survive
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Maid : hard work, low pay, and a mother's will to survive
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- Maid : hard work, low pay, and a mother's will to survive
- Title remainder
- hard work, low pay, and a mother's will to survive
- Statement of responsibility
- Stephanie Land ; foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich
- Subject
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- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women
- Biography
- Land, Stephanie
- Poverty
- Poverty -- United States
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity
- Single mothers
- Single mothers -- United States -- Biography
- Single parents -- Biography
- United States
- United States -- Economic conditions
- Women household employees
- Autobiographies
- Working class
- Working class -- United States -- Biography
- Working class -- United States -- Biography
- Working poor
- Working poor
- Working poor -- United States
- Women household employees -- United States -- Biography
- Autobiographies
- Language
- eng
- Summary
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- 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
- Land's plans of breaking free from the roots of her hometown in the Pacific Northwest to chase her dreams were cut short when a summer fling turned into an unexpected pregnancy. She turned to housekeeping to make ends meet, took classes online to earn a college degree. And she wrote relentlessly: true stories of overworked and underpaid Americans; of living on food stamps and WIC coupons. Here she explores the underbelly of upper-middle class America and the reality of what it's like to be in service to them. -- adapted from jacket
- "At 28, Stephanie Land's plans of breaking free from the roots of her hometown in the Pacific Northwest to chase her dreams of attending a university and becoming a writer, were cut short when a summer fling turned into an unplanned pregnancy. She turned to housekeeping to make ends meet, and, with a tenacious grip on her dream to provide her daughter the very best life possible, Stephanie worked days and took classes online to earn a college degree, and began to write relentlessly. She wrote the true stories that weren't being told: the stories of overworked and underpaid Americans. Of living on food stamps and WIC (Women, Infants, and Children) coupons to eat. Of the government programs that provided her housing, but that doubled as halfway houses. The aloof government employees who called her lucky for receiving assistance while she didn't feel lucky at all. She wrote to remember the fight, to eventually cut through the deep-rooted stigmas of the working poor. [This book] explores the secret underbelly of upper middle class Americans and the reality of what it's like to be in service to them. 'I'd become a nameless ghost,' Stephanie writes about her relationship with her clients, many of whom do not know her from any other cleaner, but who she learns plenty about. As she begins to discover more about her clients' lives--their sadness and love, too--she begins to find hope in her own path. Her compassionate, unflinching writing as a journalist gives voice to the 'servant' worker, and those pursuing the American Dream from below the poverty line. Maid is Stephanie's story, but it's not hers alone. It is an inspiring testament to the strength, determination, and ultimate triumph of the human spirit."--Dust jacket
- Biography type
- autobiography
- Cataloging source
- NjBwBT
- Dewey number
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- 331.4/8164092
- B
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- HD6072.2.U5
- LC item number
- L36 2019
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Target audience
- adult
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/relation/writerofforeword
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