For immigrant domestic workers, asserting their rights can lead to dangerous forms of retaliation.

For seven years, Teresa tended to another family’s children inside a Manhattan home. She now calls it the worst job of her life. They kept meticulous logbooks of the hours she put in, an unwitting manifestation of a household that tallied everything and answered for none of it. Teresa first began working in Mexico when she was 13 years old, yet in all those years, no employer wore on her…

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