Maid : hard work, low pay, and a mother's will to survive / Stephanie Land ; foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich.

Maid : hard work, low pay, and a mother's will to survive / Stephanie Land ; foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich.

By
: 
Land, Stephanie, 1978-

Publication Date
: 
2019

Publication Information
: 
New York : Hachette Books,

Edition
: 
First edition.

Physical Description
: 
xiv, 270 p.

Subject Term
: 
Women household employees -- United States -- Biography.
 
Working class -- United States -- Biography.
 
Single mothers -- United States.
 
Working poor.
 
Poverty -- United States.

Additional Contributors
: 
Ehrenreich, Barbara.

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.

Language
: 
English

ISBN
: 
9780316454506


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