Emma Amador is an Assistant Professor in the History Department at Goucher College. A 2015 graduate from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, she is revising her dissertation, Welfare is Work: Social Welfare, Migration, and Women's Activism in Puerto Rican Communities after 1917. Her grandmother's stories of migrating from Puerto Rico to the US for domestic work inspired this essay.

Eileen Boris, Hull Professor of Feminist Studies and Professor of History, Black Studies, and Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, writes on the home as a workplace. With Jennifer Klein, she is the author of Caring for America: Home Health Workers in the Shadow of the Welfare State (Oxford, 2012, paperback, 2015 with new afterward). She is now writing on the making of the woman worker through global labor standards, including outwork, domestic work, sex work, and care work.

Santiago Canevaro is an Assistant Researcher at the Argentinean Research Council for Scientific and Technical Research (Conicet) and a professor at the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO, Argentina). He is the author of Presencias invisibles. Performance, identidad y migración (Editorial Académica Española, 2012). His current research focuses on analyzing how moral class boundaries are built on relationships between employers and domestic workers in two cities in the province in Argentina.

Keona K. Ervin is Assistant Professor of African-American History at the University of Missouri. She is the author of a forthcoming history of black women's labor activism in twentieth-century St. Louis.

Jennifer N. Fish, Chair of Women's Studies at Old Dominion University, has worked with domestic worker organizations throughout the world since 2000. She is the author of Domestic Democracy: At Home in South Africa (Routledge, 2006) and the co-editor, with Hannah E. Britton and Sheila Meintjes, of Women's Activism in South Africa: Working Across Divides ( University of KwaZulu-Natal Press).

Harmony Goldberg completed her Ph.D. dissertation in Cultural Geography at the Graduate Center of CUNY in 2014: “Our Day Has Finally Come: Domestic Worker Organizing in New York City.” She has been directly engaged with domestic worker organizing and education for ten years through Domestic Workers United and the National Domestic Workers Alliance.

Victoria Haskins is an Associate Professor in History at the University of Newcastle. She has published widely on Indigenous domestic service histories and her most recent books include Colonization and Domestic Service: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (Routledge 2014), co-edited with Claire Lowrie, and Matrons and Maids: Regulating Indian Domestic Service in Tucson, 1914–1934 (University of Arizona Press, 2012).

Ju Li is an assistant professor in Sociology and Social Anthropology department at the Central European University, Budapest. Her research interests include globalization, critical development, global history, labor, modern China, state socialist transformation, immigration, social history, oral history, and the study of life courses. Her most recent research project looks at the social and labor history of one industrial complex in China from the 1960s to the present.

Henrique Espada Lima is Associate Professor of History at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (Brazil). He has published on a variety of topics, from twentieth-century European historiography to labor and the history of slavery in Brazil. He is the author of A micro-história italiana: escalas, indícios e singularidades (Civilização Brasileira, 2006), and he is currently writing a new book on the lives of former slaves and the invention of free labor in nineteenth-century Brazil.

Premilla Nadasen is Associate Professor of History, Barnard College. She is the author of several books on welfare, including the award-winning Welfare Warriors: The Welfare Rights Movement in the United States, as well as numerous scholarly and popular articles about welfare, domestic work, social movements, social policy, and African American women's history. Her latest book, Household Workers Unite: The Untold Story of African American Women Who Built a Movement (Beacon 2015), is a history of African American domestic worker organizing.

Robyn Pariser is a Visiting Lecturer in the History Department at University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Her research explores the intersection of labor and gender in colonial and post-colonial Tanzania.

Inés Pérez is an Assistant Professor at the University of Mar del Plata (UNMdP) and an Assistant Researcher at the Argentinean Research Council for Scientific and Technical Research (Conicet). She is the author of El hogar tecnificado: familias, género y vida cotidiana (Bliblos, 2012). Her current research is on the history of domestic service in Argentina in the mid Twentieth Century.

Laura Schwartz is Assistant Professor of Modern British History at the University of Warwick. She is currently working on a monograph entitled Feminism and the Servant Problem: Domestic Labour and Feminist Debates on Work.

Anne Scrimgeour has worked with Pilbara Aboriginal people to record, transcribe and translate oral history, and with Monty Hale to prepare his bilingual autobiography for publication (Kurlumarniny: We come from the Desert, Aboriginal Studies Press, 2012). She is currently consolidating her oral history and biographical work through archival research into the history of the 1946 Pilbara pastoral workers’ strike and subsequent cooperative movement.

David Witwer received his Ph.D. from Brown University in American history. He is the author of two books, Corruption and Reform in the Teamsters Union (2003) and Shadow of the Racketeer: Scandal in Organized Labor (2009). He teaches history at Penn State Harrisburg.