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Book

Maid : hard work, low pay, and a mother's will to survive

Call Number

  • 921 L2535 (CEN, OSH, WSQ)

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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.

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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