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Maid: New York Times Bestsellers - Business

Autor Stephanie Land
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 21 ian 2020

Bazându-ne pe datele furnizate de Orion Publishing Group și pe contextul socio-economic oferit de asociații precum Economic Hardship Reporting Project, reținem că Maid nu este doar un memoriu personal, ci o analiză structurală a sărăciei moderne. Ne-a atras atenția modul în care Stephanie Land documentează tranziția forțată de la planurile de studii universitare la realitatea brutală a muncii fizice, declanșată de o sarcină neprevăzută la vârsta de 28 de ani. Ediția de față, publicată sub imprintul TRAPEZE, beneficiază de o prefață semnată de Barbara Ehrenreich, oferind o validare academică și jurnalistică demersului autoarei de a demonta stigmatul atașat beneficiarilor de asistență socială.

Merită menționat că structura narativă a cărții se bazează pe contrastul dintre invizibilitatea socială a menajerei — descrisă de Land ca o „fantomă fără nume” — și detaliile intime pe care aceasta le descoperă despre viețile clienților săi. Maid completează perspectiva oferită de The Working Poor de David K. Shipler, adăugând o dimensiune subiectivă, feminină și maternă analizei riguroase a lui Shipler asupra pragului de sărăcie. În timp ce Shipler oferă o privire de ansamblu asupra diverselor categorii de muncitori precari, Land se concentrează pe experiența viscerală a navigării birocrației guvernamentale și a supraviețuirii cu ajutorul cupoanelor WIC.

În contextul operei sale, Maid reprezintă fundamentul pe care s-a construit cariera sa de jurnalist axat pe justiție economică. Această lucrare este continuată tematic de Class, unde autoarea explorează viața de după succesul memoriului său, concentrându-se pe perioada studiilor universitare și pe barierele de clasă din mediul academic. Ritmul este alert, marcat de urgența subzistenței, oferind o perspectivă rară asupra efortului de a obține o diplomă în timp ce lucrezi în servicii menajere.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780316505093
ISBN-10: 0316505099
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 139 x 208 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Grand Central Publishing
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De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte oricărui cititor interesat de sociologie și de realitățile pieței muncii contemporane. Maid oferă o lecție despre reziliență și demnitate, dezvăluind mecanismele adesea invizibile care mențin ciclul sărăciei. Este o lectură esențială pentru a înțelege discrepanțele de clasă, oferind în același timp o poveste umană despre determinarea unei mame de a construi un viitor mai bun pentru copilul său prin educație și scris.


Despre autor

Stephanie Land este o scriitoare și jurnalistă americană a cărei activitate se concentrează pe justiția socială și economică. Textele sale au apărut în publicații de prestigiu precum The New York Times și The Guardian. Land este bursieră a Center for Community Change și a Economic Hardship Reporting Project, organizații care sprijină vocile celor aflați în dificultate financiară. Succesul memoriului său, Maid, a transformat-o într-o voce importantă în dialogul despre clasa muncitoare din SUA, lucrarea sa fiind adaptată într-o miniserie Netflix apreciată de critică.


Descriere

 

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Evicted meets Nickel and Dimed in Stephanie Land's memoir about working as a maid, a beautiful and gritty exploration of poverty in America. Includes a foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich.

At 28, Stephanie Land's plans of breaking free from the roots of her hometown in the Pacific Northwest to chase her dreams of attending a university and becoming a writer, were cut short when a summer fling turned into an unexpected pregnancy. She turned to housekeeping to make ends meet, and with a tenacious grip on her dream to provide her daughter the very best life possible, Stephanie worked days and took classes online to earn a college degree, and began to write relentlessly.

 

She wrote the true stories that weren't being told: the stories of overworked and underpaid Americans. Of living on food stamps and WIC (Women, Infants, and Children) coupons to eat. Of the government programs that provided her housing, but that doubled as halfway houses. The aloof government employees who called her lucky for receiving assistance while she didn't feel lucky at all. She wrote to remember the fight, to eventually cut through the deep-rooted stigmas of the working poor.

Maid explores the underbelly of upper-middle class America and the reality of what it's like to be 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, but who she learns plenty about. As she begins to discover more about her clients' lives-their sadness and love, too-she begins to find hope in her own path.

Her compassionate, unflinching writing as a journalist gives voice to the "servant" worker, and those pursuing the American Dream from below the poverty line. Maid is Stephanie's story, but it's not her alone. It is an inspiring testament to the strength, determination, and ultimate triumph of the human spirit.


Recenzii

'What this book does well is illuminate the struggles of poverty and single-motherhood, the unrelenting frustration of having no safety net, the ways in which our society is systemically designed to keep impoverished people mired in poverty, the indignity of poverty by way of unmovable bureaucracy, and people's lousy attitudes toward poor people... Land's prose is vivid and engaging... [A] tightly-focused, well-written memoir... an incredibly worthwhile read.'
ROXANE GAY, New York Times bestselling author of Bad Feminist and Hunger: A Memoir


'Marry the evocative first-person narrative of Educated with the kind of social criticism seen in Nickel and Dimed and you'll get a sense of the remarkable book you hold in your hands. In Maid, Stephanie Land, a gifted storyteller with an eye for details you'll never forget, exposes what it's like to exist in America as a single mother, working herself sick cleaning our dirty toilets, one missed paycheck away from destitution. It's a perspective we seldom see represented first hand - and one we so desperately need right now. Timely, urgent, and unforgettable, this is memoir at its very best."
SUSANNAH CAHALAN, No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness

'We need more books like Maid, with the view from behind the fridge and under the couch. Stephanie Land has something to teach us about both sides of the inequality divide. Neither is what you are expecting.'
BARBARA EHRENREICH, international bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed

'As a solo mom and former house cleaner, this brave book resonated with me on a very deep level. We live in a world where the solo mother is an incomplete story: adrift in the world without a partner, without support, without a grounding, centering (male) force. But women have been doing this since the dawn of time, and Stephanie Land is one of millions of solo moms forced to get blood from stone. She is at once an old and new kind of American hero. This memoir of resilience and love has never been more necessary.'
DOMENICA RUTA, New York Times bestselling author of With or Without You

'Stephanie Land's heartrending book, Maid, provides a trenchant reminder that something is amiss with the American Dream and gives voice to the millions of "working poor" toiling in a country that needs them but doesn't want to see them. A sad and hopeful tale of being on the outside looking in, the author makes us wonder how'd we fare scrubbing and vacuuming away the detritus of an affluence that always seems beyond reach."
STEVE DUBLANICA, New York Times bestselling author of Waiter Rant

'Heartfelt and powerful...Land's love for her daughter shines brightly through the pages of this beautiful, uplifting story of resilience and survival.' PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
'There's two stories in Maid. One is of the grind, agony and precariousness of poverty and the systems and stigma that mindlessly trap people in it. The other is a love story - of a mother and daughter, but also a woman's love for herself when world has turned its back on her. An important book giving a powerful voice to those who are too regularly overlooked.' MARISA BATE
'A work full of integrity and of the grit, graft and grace that comes with it. Stephanie Land's memoir is an essential manual in the sort of resilience, hope and diligence many of us will be fortunate enough to never experience. Maid comes from the gut not the gutter. Stephanie Land was meant to be a writer.' LISA BLOWER, award-winning author of Sitting Ducks

Notă biografică

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.