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Two groundbreaking sociologists explore the way the American dream
is built on the backs of working poor women 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.
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