Amanda Freeman,Lisa Dodson
Getting Me Cheap: How Low Wage Work Traps Women and Girls in Poverty
Getting Me Cheap: How Low Wage Work Traps Women and Girls in Poverty
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Two sociologists examine how the American dream is built on the backs of working-poor women, revealing how America traps millions of women and their children into lives of stunted opportunity and poverty. The book offers policy solutions and a moral vision for organizing women across class lines.
Format: Hardback
Length: 256 pages
Publication date: 12 January 2023
Publisher: The New Press
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 Nickel 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.
Weight: 412g
Dimension: 151 x 226 x 24 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781620977422
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