In this enlightening and timely work, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo highlights the voices, experiences, and views of Mexican and Central American women who care for other people's children and homes, as well as the outlooks of the women who employ them in Los Angeles. The new preface looks at the current issues facing immigrant domestic workers in a global context.

Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo is Professor of Sociology at the University of Southern California.

"Doméstica. . . opens a rare window into the lives of workers." —Los Angeles Times

"Masterly, evenhanded, and rooted in the high-minded ambitions of its author. . . . Doméstica raises questions that are hard to face if you have immigrants working in your home."—Atlantic Monthly

"[A] thoughtful, nuanced account of a troubled world so close to home that it's become almost invisible."—Mother Jones

"Doméstica is a pathbreaking study. It opens our eyes to the hidden world of transnational care-work and calls on us to shape domestic and international policies that will bring basic principles of human rights and social justice into that world. Everyone who is concerned about care and equality should read it."—Lucie White, Professor, Harvard Law School

"Hondagneu-Sotelo challenges the reader to rethink the organization of caring work, the roles of race and immigrant status in the structure of domestic work, the importance of regulations, and the need for legal and personal recognition of the rights and human dignity of each worker."—Bonnie Thornton Dill, author of Across the Boundaries of Race and Class

2002 Distinguished Scholarship Award, Pacific Sociological Association
2001 C. Wright Mills Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems
2002 Distinguished Contribution to Research in the Latina/o Section, American Sociological Association
2002 Distinguished Book Award in the Sex and Gender Section, American Sociological Association
2002 Max Weber Award, Section on Organizations, Occupations and Work, American Sociological Association