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From The New York Times comes harrowing stories of life as a domestic worker in the U.S. Most of the women in the story are immigrants.

“The first National Domestic Workers Congress demanded rights for a work force that organizers describe as splintered, almost invisible, and staggeringly difficult to organize.” (Source: Cara Buckley and Annie Correal in The New York Times)

You may also be interested in the editorial piece that ran the same day calling for passage of a New York State Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights. Right above that article’s entry in the NYT Search list was a headline for an letter to the editor written in 1913 that read, “Domestic Workers Would Be More Numerous if Treated as Equals.”