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

Contributor(s): Land, Stepahnie (Author), Ehrenreich, Barbara (Foreword by)

ISBN: 9780316505116

Publisher: Hachette Books

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Pub Date: January 1, 2019

Dewey: B

LCCN: 2018954908

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Dust Cover, Price on Product

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 1.30" H x 9.10" L x 6.10" W ( 1.05 lbs) 288 pages

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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.

Review Quotes: "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 2019 Summer Reading List"

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