The global migration of Filipino domestic workersThe international division of reproductive labor -- The transnational family -- Gender and intergenerational relations -- Contradictory class mobility -- The crisis of masculinity -- The aging of migrant domestic workers.

The book is largely based on interviews with domestic workers, but the book also powerfully portrays the larger economic picture as domestic workers from developing countries increasingly come to perform the menial labor of the global economy. This is often done at great cost to the relations...