Domestic Labor

I have never personally had a relationship with domestic labor. When I was a kid and visited relatives, sometimes they would hire maids to clean house for them. It wasn't a regular thing, but they would have the same people come every once in a while. I don't recall if it were as hostile a relationship as the movie we watched in discussion, Black Girl, but it was impersonal, and we didn't converse with them they just did their thing. Work is hard to come by, and domestic work, is something we usually do anyways, so I supposed it is convenient to get paid to do someone elses.  However, I don't think it's right to treat someone poorly like they did in the clip we watched in class, where the maid was pretty much not seen as human and treated without dignity or respect. It's as though they considered her a possession or a robot.  It is pretty complex and in other movies I've seen, such as the Help or the Color of Friendship, the children tend to have a relationship with the maids/nannies because it's intimate to have a caregiver, but it's different with their actual employers who expect the workers to bow down to them yet trust them in their homes.