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Author:

Land, Stephanie, author.

Title:

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

Edition:

Large print edition.

Publisher:

Thorndike Press,

Copyright Date:

2019

Description:

441 pages (large print) ; 23 cm

Subject:

Land, Stephanie.
Women household employees--United States--Biography.
Working class--United States--Biography.
Single mothers--United States--Biography.
Working poor--United States.
Poverty--United States.
Autobiographies.

Other Authors:

Ehrenreich, Barbara, writer of foreword.

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.

Series:

Thorndike Press large print biographies and memoirs

ISBN:

1432858920
9781432858926

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1083691305

LCCN:

2018059424

Locations:

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

FYPI314 -- Dubuque County Library - Asbury Branch (Asbury)

CLPC792 -- Brooklyn Public Library (Brooklyn)

YTPG232 -- Clinton Public Library (Clinton)

CDPF771 -- Clive Public Library (Clive)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

S1PD771 -- Johnston Public Library (Johnston)

KWPE446 -- Mount Pleasant Public Library (Mount Pleasant)

HRPE845 -- Sioux Center Public Library (Sioux Center)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)