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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most in home housekeepers and staff have their own place and come to the jobsite to work just like you and I.[/quote]

Ok, but when did this change?[/quote]

DP: Several changes to laws made it more expensive for the employer and less attractive to the employee:

1) slavery and indentured servitude ended;
2) federal law began to regulate wages and hours worked in 1938, but live-in domestic workers were exempted (thus choosing live-in arrangements was less attractive to workers);
3) Congress began protecting live-in domestic workers in 1974, and further in 2015. State laws also began to add protections and requirements related to live-in arrangements, including things like locakable doors in living quarters, access to a kitchen, etc. (making live-in arrangments less attractive to employers).

To this day, independent live-in domestic workers have far fewer legal protections than those employed by agencies or contracted through companies.

Here is some current statistical data: https://www.epi.org/publication/domestic-workers-chartbook-2022/#chart1
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