Getting me cheap : how low-wage work traps women and girls in poverty / Amanda Freeman, Lisa Dodson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Freeman, Amanda, author.

Dodson, Lisa, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Income distribution--United States.

Income distribution.

Poor women--United States.

Poor women.

Poverty--United States.

Poverty.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (142 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : The New Press, [2022]

Summary:

"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 riveting 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. Destined to rank with works like Evicted and Nickle and Dimed for its revelatory glimpse into how our society functions behind the scenes, Getting Me Cheap also offers a way forward-with both policy solutions and a keen moral vision for organizing women across class lines"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Contents

Authors' Note

1. Girls Step Up

2. Shifts to Work Any and All the Time

3. Care Work for Cheap

4. The Centrality of Motherhood

5. The Broken Promise of Childcare

6. Moms and Kids on a Cliff

7. Keeping Us in Our Place

8. Calling Us Up

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index

About the Authors

Publishing in the Public Interest

Copyright.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781620977712

1620977710

OCLC:

1349279176