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A journalist describes the years she worked in low-paying domestic work under wealthy employers, contrasting the privileges of the upper-middle class to the realities of the overworked laborers supporting them.
Land's plans of breaking free from the roots of her hometown in the Pacific Northwest to chase her dreams were cut short when a summer fling turned into an unexpected pregnancy. She turned to housekeeping to make ends meet, took classes online...
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p2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 3
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120 p. ; cm.
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Acclaimed author Deborah Hopkinson traces the history of the cotton industry in America through the centuries, from colonial times to the middle of the twentieth century. Through oral histories, she captures the voices of the forgotten men, women, and children who worked in the cotton industry, while her compelling prose lends poignancy, humor and sometimes sorrow to the narratives of the slaves who toiled in the South, the poor sharecroppers who...
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