Author: Mrs. Henry DudeneyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Maid's Money
Author: Mrs. Henry DudeneyConvict Maids
Author: Deborah OxleyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521446778
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
This analysis of female transports to Australia reveals their significant contribution to the new economy.
Maid
Author: Stephanie LandPublisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0316505102
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
"A single mother's personal, unflinching look at America's class divide (Barack Obama)," this New York Times bestselling memoir is the inspiration for the Netflix limited series, hailed by Rolling Stone as "a great one." At 28, Stephanie Land's dreams of attending a university and becoming a writer quickly dissolved when a summer fling turned into an unplanned pregnancy. Before long, she found herself a single mother, scraping by as a housekeeper to make ends meet. Maid is an emotionally raw, masterful account of Stephanie's years spent in service to upper middle class America as a "nameless ghost" who quietly shared in her clients' triumphs, tragedies, and deepest secrets. Driven to carve out a better life for her family, she cleaned by day and took online classes by night, writing relentlessly as she worked toward earning a college degree. She wrote of the true stories that weren't being told: of living on food stamps and WIC coupons, of government programs that barely provided housing, of aloof government employees who shamed her for receiving what little assistance she did. Above all else, she wrote about pursuing the myth of the American Dream from the poverty line, all the while slashing through deep-rooted stigmas of the working poor. Maid is Stephanie's story, but it's not hers alone. It is an inspiring testament to the courage, determination, and ultimate strength of the human spirit. "A single mother's personal, unflinching look at America's class divide, a description of the tightrope many families walk just to get by, and a reminder of the dignity of all work." -PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA, Obama's Summer Reading List
Money, Prices and Power in Poland, 16th-17th Centuries
Author: Antoni MaçzakPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040231225
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
The first articles in this volume focus on sources for the history of Baltic commerce and the evaluation of their data on prices. In most cases, though, surviving data is hardly adequate for any extensive quantitative analysis of Polish economic history, and many of these articles endeavour in different ways to use comparitive approaches to help overcome this lack of substantial statistical base - hence the set of studies on the economy of travelling and the observations of travellers. Professor Maçzak then turns to the structures of power in Poland and elsewhere in late renaissance Europe, looking in particular at informal power relationships and patterns of patronage. In terms of the Polish-Lithunaian state, he would hold that centralized government was already critically weakened in the late 15th century, and the 16th century saw the creation of a new power structure, based on local self-government, and dominated by the nobility.
The English Year
Author: Steve RoudPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141919272
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
This enthralling book will take you, month-by-month, day-by-day, through all the festivities of English life. From national celebrations such as New Year’s Eve to regional customs such as the Padstow Hobby Horse procession, cheese rolling in Gloucestershire and Easter Monday bottle kicking in Leeds, it explains how they originated, what they mean and when they occur. A fascinating guide to the richness of our heritage and the sometimes eccentric nature of life in England, The English Year offers a unique chronological view of our social customs and attitudes
Maids' and Madams' Moral Topographies
Author: Johanna VogelPublisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 3643909969
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
This qualitative study asks whether structural transformation brought about by modernization in contemporary urban India can induce growing equality in the sense of mutual respect between the lower and the middle classes. From the idographic context of female domestic workers and their employers in Chennai (Tamil Nadu) a general type of modernity for the periphery is outlined. Even though changes in this relation are apparent and various forms of respect and recognition are developing, the deep hierarchical differences persist despite - or precisely because of - modernity in the form of capitalism. Johanna Vogel (Dr.) studied Intercultural Business Studies at the University of Passau and received 2017 her PhD in Human Geography at the University of Bayreuth.
Maids of Paradise
Author: Robert William ChambersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Notes and Queries
Author: Comic Arithmetic
Author: Percival LeighPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arithmetic
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
The Independent
Author: William LivingstonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1566
Book Description