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Maid [LP] hard work, low pay, and a mother's will to survive

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.

Main Author: Land, Stephanie (Author)
Format: Books Print Book Large Print
Language: English
Published: Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, [2019]
Edition: Large print edition.
Subjects:
Land, Stephanie.
Women household employees > United States > Biography.
Working class > United States > Biography.
Single mothers > United States > Biography.
Working poor > United States.
Autobiographies.
Large print books.
Table of 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.

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