The Resource Women's work : a reckoning with home and help, Megan K. Stack
Women's work : a reckoning with home and help, Megan K. Stack
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The item Women's work : a reckoning with home and help, Megan K. Stack represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Manchester City Library.
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- Summary
- When Megan Stack was living in Beijing, she left her prestigious job as a foreign correspondent to have her first child and work from home writing a book. She quickly realized that caring for a baby and keeping up with the housework while her husband went to the office each day was consuming the time she needed to write. This dilemma was resolved in the manner of many upper-class families and large corporations: she availed herself of cheap Chinese labor. The housekeeper Stack hired was a migrant from the countryside, a mother who had left her daughter in a precarious situation to earn desperately needed cash in the capital. As Stack's family grew and her husband's job took them to Dehli, a series of Chinese and Indian women cooked, cleaned, and babysat in her home. Stack grew increasingly aware of the brutal realities of their lives: domestic abuse, alcoholism, unplanned pregnancies. Hiring poor women had given her the ability to work while raising her children, but what ethical compromise had she made?
- Language
- eng
- Label
- Women's work : a reckoning with home and help
- Title
- Women's work
- Title remainder
- a reckoning with home and help
- Statement of responsibility
- Megan K. Stack
- Title variation
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- Reckoning with home and help
- Women's work
- Title variation remainder
- a reckoning with work and home
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- When Megan Stack was living in Beijing, she left her prestigious job as a foreign correspondent to have her first child and work from home writing a book. She quickly realized that caring for a baby and keeping up with the housework while her husband went to the office each day was consuming the time she needed to write. This dilemma was resolved in the manner of many upper-class families and large corporations: she availed herself of cheap Chinese labor. The housekeeper Stack hired was a migrant from the countryside, a mother who had left her daughter in a precarious situation to earn desperately needed cash in the capital. As Stack's family grew and her husband's job took them to Dehli, a series of Chinese and Indian women cooked, cleaned, and babysat in her home. Stack grew increasingly aware of the brutal realities of their lives: domestic abuse, alcoholism, unplanned pregnancies. Hiring poor women had given her the ability to work while raising her children, but what ethical compromise had she made?
- Biography type
- autobiography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Stack, Megan K
- Dewey number
- 362.71/20954
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- HQ778.7.I4
- LC item number
- S73 2019
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Stack, Megan K
- Child care workers
- Child care workers
- Working mothers
- Americans
- Americans
- Nannies
- Nannies
- Women household employees
- Women household employees
- Label
- Women's work : a reckoning with home and help, Megan K. Stack
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- x, 336 pages
- Isbn
- 9780385542098
- Isbn Type
- (hbk : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2018035800
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)on1090796783
- Label
- Women's work : a reckoning with home and help, Megan K. Stack
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- x, 336 pages
- Isbn
- 9780385542098
- Isbn Type
- (hbk : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2018035800
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)on1090796783
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