 | | 書 名 | Maid： Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive | | 作 者 | Stephanie Land ; foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich | | 出 版 項 | New York; Hachette Books; 2019 | | 稽 核 項 | xiv, 270 pages ;; 24 cm | | 標 題 | Land, Stephanie, | | 標 題 | Women household employees | | 標 題 | Working class | | 標 題 | Single mothers | | 標 題 | Working poor | | 標 題 | Poverty | | 內 容 註 | The cabin -- The camper -- Transitional housing -- TheFairgrounds apartment -- Seven different kinds ofgovernment 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 planthouse -- The chef's house -- Donna's house -- In threeyears -- The sad house -- Lori's house -- "I don't knowhow you do it" -- The clown house -- Still life with Mia -- Do better -- The bay house -- The hardest worker -- Thehoarder house -- We're home | | 摘 要 註 | At 28, Stephanie Land's dreams -- breaking free from theroots of her hometown in the Pacific Northwest, attendinga university, and becoming a writer -- were cut short whena summer fling turned into an unexpected pregnancy. Sheturned to housekeeping to make ends meet, working days andtaking college classes online. She also began to writerelentlessly. She wrote the true stories that weren'tbeing told: the stories of overworked and underpaidAmericans. Of living on food stamps and WIC (Women,Infants, and Children) coupons to eat. Of the governmentprograms that provided her housing, but that doubled ashalfway houses. The aloof government employees who calledher lucky for receiving assistance while she didn't feellucky at all. She wrote to remember the fight, toeventually cut through the deep-rooted stigmas of theworking poor. Her memoir explores the underbelly of upper-middle class America and the reality of what it's like tobe in service to them. "I'd become a nameless ghost,"Stephanie writes about her relationship with her clients,many of whom do not know her from any other cleaner, butwho she learns plenty about. As she begins to discovermore about her clients' lives -- their sadness and love, | | ISBN | 9780316505116 | | ISBN | 9780316454506 |
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