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Maid : hard work, low pay, and a mother's will to survive
Title:
Maid : hard work, low pay, and a mother's will to survive
Author:
Land, Stephanie, author.
Personal Author:
Land, Stephanie, author.
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Hachette Books, 2019.
Physical Description:
xiv, 270 pages ; 24 cm
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
Personal Subject:
Land, Stephanie.
Subject Term:
Women household employees -- United States -- Biography.

Working class -- United States -- Biography.

Single mothers -- United States -- Biography.

Working poor -- United States.

Poverty -- United States.

Poverty. (OCoLC)fst01074093

Single mothers. (OCoLC)fst01119370

Women household employees. (OCoLC)fst01734125

Working class. (OCoLC)fst01180418

Working poor. (OCoLC)fst01180666

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women.

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness.

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity.
Geographic Term:
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre:
Autobiographies.

Autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst01919894

Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
ISBN:
9780316505116
Format :
Book

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