How to Hire a Nanny - A Household HR Handbook by Guy Maddalone

"This one-of-a-kind handbook guides household employers on how to hire, manage and retain child care, elder care and other household employees via professional management, open communication and effective employment practices and procedures. How to Hire a Nanny addresses all of the important issues and special rules surrounding household help. Learn about such topics as: Using an agency Following work agreement/personnel practices Scheduling wages and hours Managing payroll and taxes Hiring laws and illegal discrimination in the home Handling terminations and resignations A vast number of references including interview questions, sample offer letters, job descriptions, legal forms and valuable websites make this a must-have for hiring household help."

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In Cheap We Trust (Hardcover)

Guilt-free consumption has always been a cherished American value, but this book explores its flip side: a historical engagement with thriftiness, starting in the pre-revolutionary days with Benjamin Franklin, championed by reformers Booker T. Washington and Lydia Marie Child, taken to absurd lengths by the 19th-century miserly millionaire Hetty Green, espoused by economist John Maynard Keynes and married to environmental concerns by contemporary conservationists. Journalist Weber's treatise begins with recollecting her father's conservative habits and ramifies into a far-ranging examination of social programs, alternative movements and mainstream institutions including savings banks, home economics, industrial efficiency experts, freegans, economists and war departments, all of which promote some form of frugality. While failing to provide a satisfying distinction between cheapness and thrift, the author provides a rich canvas from which to consider American ambivalence about saving; she examines how thriftiness became a racist pejorative hurled at Jewish and Asian immigrants. Click here for more details!