Maid
Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
New York, NY : Hachette Audio, [2019]
Format: Audiobook on CD
Edition: Unabridged.
Description: 7 audio discs (approximately 8 hr., 30 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
A economic-hardship 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.
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.
Subjects:
Land, Stephanie.
Women household employees -- United States -- Biography.
Working class -- United States -- Biography.
Single mothers -- United States -- Biography.
Working poor -- United States.
Poverty -- United States.
Land, Stephanie.
Women household employees -- United States -- Biography.
Working class -- United States -- Biography.
Single mothers -- United States -- Biography.
Working poor -- United States.
Poverty -- United States.
ISBN:
9781549173950
UPC: 9781549173950
Availability | |||
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
CD BIOGRAPHY Land, Stephanie | Main (Downtown) | First Level, Book on CD Nonfiction | In |
CD BIOGRAPHY Land, Stephanie | Main (Downtown) | Available by placing a hold, Repository - Adult | In |
CD BIOGRAPHY Land, Stephanie | Northeast Indoors | Book on CD Nonfiction | In |
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