Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don't Talk about It)

Alicia narrowly escaped extreme violence and deprivation in her home country. Once in the “land of the free,” she took a job as a domestic worker that soon became a form of servitude. Her employers confiscated her passport and issued a deceptive contract. They overworked and underpaid her. They subjected her to emotional and physical abuse. They limited her contact with the outside world. In one instance they said, “you have to work hard to make...