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Maid: hard work, low pay, and a mother's will to survive
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Contributors:
Ehrenreich, Barbara, writer of foreword.
Published:
New York : Hachette Books, 2019.
Format:
Book
Edition:
First edition.
Physical Desc:
xiv, 270 pages ; 24 cm
Status:
Description
"A single mother's personal, unflinching look at America's class divide (Barack Obama)," this New York Times bestselling memoir is the inspiration for the Netflix limited series, hailed by Rolling Stone as "a great one."    At 28, Stephanie Land's dreams of attending a university and becoming a writer quickly dissolved when a summer fling turned into an unplanned pregnancy. Before long, she found herself a single mother, scraping by as a housekeeper to make ends meet.

Maid is an emotionally raw, masterful account of Stephanie's years spent in service to upper middle class America as a "nameless ghost" who quietly shared in her clients' triumphs, tragedies, and deepest secrets. Driven to carve out a better life for her family, she cleaned by day and took online classes by night, writing relentlessly as she worked toward earning a college degree. She wrote of the true stories that weren't being told: of living on food stamps and WIC coupons, of government programs that barely provided housing, of aloof government employees who shamed her for receiving what little assistance she did. Above all else, she wrote about pursuing the myth of the American Dream from the poverty line, all the while slashing through deep-rooted stigmas of the working poor.

Maid is Stephanie's story, but it's not hers alone. It is an inspiring testament to the courage, determination, and ultimate strength of the human spirit.

"A single mother's personal, unflinching look at America's class divide, a description of the tightrope many families walk just to get by, and a reminder of the dignity of all work." -PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA, Obama's Summer Reading List
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Language:
English
ISBN:
9780316505093, 0316505110, 9780316505116

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Description
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.
Citations
APA Citation (style guide)

Land, S., & Ehrenreich, B. (2019). Maid: hard work, low pay, and a mother's will to survive. First edition. New York, Hachette Books.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)

Land, Stephanie, 1978- and Barbara, Ehrenreich. 2019. Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive. New York, Hachette Books.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)

Land, Stephanie, 1978- and Barbara, Ehrenreich, Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive. New York, Hachette Books, 2019.

MLA Citation (style guide)

Land, Stephanie and Barbara Ehrenreich. Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive. First edition. New York, Hachette Books, 2019.

Note! Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2022. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy.
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