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

Author

Stephanie Land

Call Number

• 921 L2535 (CEN, EAS, 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.