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Behind the facades of luxurious Parisian buildings, the immense gates of ch芒teaux, and the bay windows of vast villas on the C么te d’Azur, live the invisible workers who serve the ultra-wealthy of France. Housekeepers, butlers, maids and cleaners, laundresses, nannies, cooks, and chauffeurs work from morning to night鈥攁nd often through the night鈥攖o satisfy the needs of the rich families who employ them. In Serving the Wealthy, Aliz茅e Delpierre offers an inside view of this unlikely cohabitation.

Drawing on extensive immersive research, Delpierre calls the relationship between ultra-rich French employers and their domestic help 鈥済olden exploitation鈥�: workers see the potential for social advancement, and the wealthy will do anything to preserve their class privilege, enjoying the fruits of their capital while outsourcing daily drudgery to others. The need for round-the-clock serving, however, does not compel the rich to pay their domestic workers a fair wage; some earn less than minimum wage鈥攁nd off-the-books gifts of designer handbags don鈥檛 necessarily fill the gap. Most of these domestic workers are women, many of whom are immigrants, and Delpierre notes that it is considered perfectly normal for a wealthy employer to hire on the basis of ethnicity鈥攖o state explicitly a preference for Black and Arab maids, for example, or a distaste for Muslim workers.

The world inhabited by servants and their ultra-rich employers might seem archaic and absurd; but Delpierre鈥檚 account sheds light not only on these particular power relations but also on the extreme inequality of our current era.