A review by nolasis17
Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive by Stephanie Land

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

All the stars. What a great book that covers classism, wealthy privilege, poverty stigma, and the role politicians play in propagating these stigmas against some of the hardest working people in our society to justify denying basic human rights to them. 

It’s just luck that a lot of us aren’t without homes, food, or medical care, and some of us barely have access to these things. Anything can happen to put us in a similar position as the author. Why the U.S.—one of the richest countries in the world— doesn’t provide basic services for its people, and instead treats those less unfortunate with such vitriol and derision is so maddening. What became obvious was how much the U.S. government teaches people to hate the working and middle class and to revere the wealthy, even though that sort of worship is not earned and at times is because they’ve exploited the labor of the working class.