This paper is a book report on the book "DomJstica: Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadows of Affluence,: which examines the lives and experiences of paid domestic workers in America, notably in Los Angeles, which serves as her laboratory for this discussion. The thrust of the book is more an explanation and description than an argument, showing the intertwining of gender, immigration, and need for domestic workers and how these elements interact to produce a system that developed over time and yet has become firmly entrenched and virtually a necessity.