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Lopez 1 Pam Lopez Instructor P. Tate English 100 March 7, 2004 Maid to Order For three weeks Barbara Ehrenreich, the author of the essay, Maid to Order, was an employee of The Maid International in Portland Maine (Ehrenreich 59). She, along with her fellow team members, cleaned animal hair, dried pasta, congealed gravies, jellies, vomit, and urine off the floors of about sixty homes (Ehrenreich 59). The brief three week employment was part of her research on the politics of housework. In the spring of 1990 I worked as an independent housecleaner. Two mornings a week I scrubbed, vacuumed, dusted, and mopped two homes while my three sons were in school. It was a job that required no special skills and I was paid under the table in cash. This job afforded the purchases that our limited family budget could not afford such as wetsuits for my two older boys. In Ms. Ehrenreich research of the politics of housework she noted that the feminists in the 60’s and 70’s were among the first to discuss the devalued labor of women, most notably housecleaning (Ehrenreich 60).