Maid
Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, [2019]
Format: Large Print
Edition: Large print edition.
Description: 441 pages large print ; 23 cm.
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.
Series: Thorndike Press large print biographies and memoirs.
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.
Large type books.
Land, Stephanie.
Women household employees -- United States -- Biography.
Working class -- United States -- Biography.
Single mothers -- United States -- Biography.
Working poor -- United States.
Large type books.
ISBN:
9781432858926
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