Getting me Cheap : : how Low-Wage Work Traps Women and Girls in Poverty
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"Many Americans take comfort and convenience for granted. We eat at nice restaurants, order groceries online, and hire nannies to care for kids. Getting Me Cheap is a portrait of the lives of the low-wage workers-primarily women-who make this lifestyle possible. Sociologists Lisa Dodson and Amanda Freeman follow women in the food, health care, home care, and other low-wage industries as they struggle to balance mothering with bad jobs and without public aid. While these women tend to the needs of well-off families, their own children frequently step into premature adult roles, providing care for siblings and aging family members. Based on years of in-depth field work and hundreds of eye-opening interviews, Getting Me Cheap explores how America traps millions of women and their children into lives of stunted opportunity and poverty in service of giving others of us the lives we seek."-- Provided by publisher.
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PUBLISHED
New York : The New Press, [2022]
Year Published: 2022
Description: x, 236 pages ; 22 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781620977422
1620977427
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Dodson, Lisa,
SUBJECTS
Income distribution -- United States.
Poor women -- United States.
Poverty -- United States.
Wages -- United States.
Women -- Employment -- United States.
Working poor -- United States.