This paper offers a presentation outline of the first three chapters of the book "Domestica: Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadows of Affluence" by Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, in which the author covers the contemporary situation with paid domestic work, showing where it occurs, who performs this work, the growth in this sector as an occupation, relationship to immigration patterns, cultural forces involved, demographic analysis, and recent trends.