Stephanie Land

Gebundenes Buch

Maid

Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

Stephanie Land is the instant New York Times bestselling author of "MAID: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive," the inspiration for the Netflix Limited series, hailed by Rolling Stone as “a great one.”   "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   Stephanie’s work has been featured in the New York Times, the Washington Post, The Guardian, The Atlantic, and many other outlets. Her writing focuses on social and economic justice. Follow her everywhere @stepville and visit stepville.com. BARBARA EHRENREICH is the author of fourteen books, including the bestselling Nickel and Dimed and Bait and Switch. She lives in Virginia.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Grand Central Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 161mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 468g
• ISBN-13: 9780316505116
• ISBN-10: 0316505110
• Artikelnr.: 52714094

Rezensionen

'What this book does well is illuminate the struggles of poverty and single-motherhood, the unrelenting frustration of having no safety net, the ways in which our society is systemically designed to keep impoverished people mired in poverty, the indignity of poverty by way of unmovable bureaucracy, and people's lousy attitudes toward poor people... Land's prose is vivid and engaging... [A] tightly-focused, well-written memoir... an incredibly worthwhile read.'
ROXANE GAY, New York Times bestselling author of Bad Feminist and Hunger: A Memoir