We often had to dig deeper for more on this topic because it was so straightforwardly obvious that their answers were often terse. What else was there to say? The relationships were “mostly because of labor. You do something for me, and I pay you.… I don’t think there is any other relationship … that is the only relationship,” says one line cook. “The interactions between Latinos and wealthy people are by cleaning their houses,” says one housekeeper. Or, as another worker described it, the working poor “are essentially servants … that’s the relationship. I don’t know if there’s any other one.”
