{"product_id":"getting-me-cheap-how-low-wage-work-traps-women-and-girls-in-poverty-hardcover","title":"Getting Me Cheap: How Low-Wage Work Traps Women and Girls in Poverty - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAmanda Freeman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eLisa Dodson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTwo groundbreaking sociologists explore the way the American dream is built on the backs of working poor women\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMany Americans take comfort and convenience for granted. We eat at nice restaurants, order groceries online, and hire nannies to care for kids.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGetting Me Cheap\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBased on years of in-depth field work and hundreds of eye-opening interviews, \u003cem\u003eGetting Me Cheap\u003c\/em\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eEvicted\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eNickle and Dimed\u003c\/em\u003e for its revelatory glimpse into how our society functions behind the scenes, \u003cem\u003eGetting Me Cheap\u003c\/em\u003e also offers a way forward--with both policy solutions and a keen moral vision for organizing women across class lines.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmanda Freeman\u003c\/b\u003e is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Hartford and a writer and researcher of motherhood and work. She lives in Westport, Connecticut, and \u003cem\u003eGetting Me Cheap\u003c\/em\u003e (The New Press) is her first book. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eLisa Dodson\u003c\/b\u003e is Research Professor Emerita at Boston College. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Moral Underground: How Ordinary Americans Subvert an Unfair Economy\u003c\/em\u003e and co-author (with Amanda Freeman) of \u003cem\u003eGetting Me Cheap: How Low Wage Work Traps Women and Girls in Poverty\u003c\/em\u003e (both from The New Press) and \u003cem\u003eDon't Call Us Out of Name\u003c\/em\u003e. She lives in Portland, Oregon.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 8.6 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 29, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51766252339488,"sku":"9781620977422","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/525719b0403a22306af2ff978121132e.webp?v=1780288320","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/getting-me-cheap-how-low-wage-work-traps-women-and-girls-in-poverty-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}