Maid’s blue-collar babies

The recent Netflix series Maid, based on Stephanie Land's memoir, highlights the challenges that poor and working-class mothers face in juggling low-wage jobs, social services, and child care.
On today’s show, Chris and Elise talk with Lane Windham and Kathy Newman about Maid and the issues it raises about women and work.
Kathy's a professor of English, literary and cultural studies at Carnegie Mellon university, where she teaches and writes about labor, class, film and media.
Lane is an experienced organizer, educator, historian, and activist; she directs WILL Empower, an ambitious collaborative project with Rutgers University to promote women's leadership in the labor movement and the struggle for economic justice. She wrote about Maid in Blue-Collar Babies: Why America’s Working Class Needs Affordable Child Care.

Produced by Chris Garlock

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