Acknowledgements

I would like to thank the domestic workers who generously shared their time, stories and experiences with me. Kim Voss, Cristina Mora, Armando Lara-Millán, Jonathan Simon, Gowri Vijayakumar, Tara Gonsalves, Carter Koppelman, Graham Hill, Elise Herrala, Ben Shestakofsky, Paula Uniacke, and Sunmin Kim offered key insightful suggestions, as did members of the Gender and Sexuality Workshop in the Berkeley Sociology Department. I am grateful to Mike McCarthy, Barry Eidlin, and anonymous reviewers for their dedicated feedback, and to Mikael Ruukel for excellent research assistance and legal prowess. A special thanks to Raka Ray for her inspiration throughout this research.