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Maid : Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive by Stephanie Land, Barbara Ehrenreich (foreword) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Educated meets Nickel & Dimed in Stephanie Land's memoir about working as a maid. A beautiful & 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 & 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, & a tangled web of government assistance, Stephanie wrote. She wrote the true stories that weren't being told. The stories of the overworked & underpaid.Written in honest, heart-rending prose & with great insight, Maid explores the underbelly of the upper-middle classes & 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'

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Author

Stephanie Land, Barbara Ehrenreich (foreword)

Publisher

Hachette Book Group

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9780316454506

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, Science, Political Science

Rating

4.4 / 5 (14,344 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14