Domestic Service Revisited: Private Household Workers and Employers in a Shifting Economic Environment

Abstract

In 1993, Nannygate, one of the many predicaments of the Clinton administration, highlighted a trend that has been many years in the making. Nannygate captured the nation's attention not only because it represented another example of the misuse of economic and political privilege but also because in recent years so many Americans have had first-hand experience employing private household workers.