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Maid
Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
Taschenbuch von Stephanie Land
Sprache: Englisch

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AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK.

Educated meets Nickel and Dimed in Stephanie Land's memoir about working as a maid. A beautiful and gritty exploration of poverty in the western world. Includes a foreword by international bestelling author Barbara Ehrenreich.

'My daughter learned to walk in a homeless shelter.'

As a struggling single mum, determined to keep a roof over her daughter's head, Stephanie Land worked for years as a maid, working long hours in order to provide for her small family. In Maid, she reveals the dark truth of what it takes to survive and thrive in today's inequitable society.

As she worked hard to climb her way out of poverty as a single parent, scrubbing the toilets of the wealthy, navigating domestic labour jobs as a cleaner whilst also juggling higher education, assisted housing, and a tangled web of government assistance, Stephanie wrote. She wrote the true stories that weren't being told. The stories of the overworked and underpaid.

Written in honest, heart-rending prose and with great insight, Maid explores the underbelly of the upper-middle classes and the reality of what it's like to be in service to them. 'I'd become a nameless ghost,' Stephanie writes. With this book, she gives voice to the 'servant' worker, those who fight daily to scramble and scrape by for their own lives and the lives of their children.
AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK.

Educated meets Nickel and Dimed in Stephanie Land's memoir about working as a maid. A beautiful and gritty exploration of poverty in the western world. Includes a foreword by international bestelling author Barbara Ehrenreich.

'My daughter learned to walk in a homeless shelter.'

As a struggling single mum, determined to keep a roof over her daughter's head, Stephanie Land worked for years as a maid, working long hours in order to provide for her small family. In Maid, she reveals the dark truth of what it takes to survive and thrive in today's inequitable society.

As she worked hard to climb her way out of poverty as a single parent, scrubbing the toilets of the wealthy, navigating domestic labour jobs as a cleaner whilst also juggling higher education, assisted housing, and a tangled web of government assistance, Stephanie wrote. She wrote the true stories that weren't being told. The stories of the overworked and underpaid.

Written in honest, heart-rending prose and with great insight, Maid explores the underbelly of the upper-middle classes and the reality of what it's like to be in service to them. 'I'd become a nameless ghost,' Stephanie writes. With this book, she gives voice to the 'servant' worker, those who fight daily to scramble and scrape by for their own lives and the lives of their children.
Über den Autor
Journalist Stephanie Land's work has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Vox, Salon, and many other outlets. She focuses on social and economic justice as a writing fellow through both the Center for Community Change and the Economic Hardship Reporting Project.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Genre: Biographien
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: 270 S.
ISBN-13: 9781409187394
ISBN-10: 140918739X
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 704270
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Land, Stephanie
Hersteller: Orion Publishing Group
TRAPEZE
Maße: 198 x 128 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Stephanie Land
Erscheinungsdatum: 09.07.2020
Gewicht: 0,25 kg
Artikel-ID: 117477748
Über den Autor
Journalist Stephanie Land's work has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Vox, Salon, and many other outlets. She focuses on social and economic justice as a writing fellow through both the Center for Community Change and the Economic Hardship Reporting Project.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Genre: Biographien
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: 270 S.
ISBN-13: 9781409187394
ISBN-10: 140918739X
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 704270
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Land, Stephanie
Hersteller: Orion Publishing Group
TRAPEZE
Maße: 198 x 128 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Stephanie Land
Erscheinungsdatum: 09.07.2020
Gewicht: 0,25 kg
Artikel-ID: 117477748
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