In her sparetime, Priscilla Biyana says she is kept busy with housework and looking after her family. On Sunday she attends church them.

• ZA HPRA AG3014-B-B13
• Unidad documental simple
• 1980s

Parte deInstitute for Advanced Social Research (IASR), Photographs

Elias Rikhoto (43) is a 'flatboy' - a cleaner in a high-rise block of flats in Hillbrow, Johannesburg.

• ZA HPRA AG3014-B-B14
• Unidad documental simple

Parte deInstitute for Advanced Social Research (IASR), Photographs

Mr Rikhoto would like to have a job which enabled him to live with his family.

• ZA HPRA AG3014-B-B15
• Unidad documental simple
• 1980s

Parte deInstitute for Advanced Social Research (IASR), Photographs

"Time-off? If there isn't too much ironing in the afternoon then I get a bit of spare time, but there isn't much to do around here."

• ZA HPRA AG3014-B-B16
• Unidad documental simple
• 1986

Parte deInstitute for Advanced Social Research (IASR), Photographs

Mrs Mngoma's husband, also a migrant worker in Johannesburg, lives in a single-sex hostel and they meet in the city at weekends. She lives in a room on the roof of the block of flats where she is employed.

• ZA HPRA AG3014-B-B17
• Unidad documental simple
• 1980s

Parte deInstitute for Advanced Social Research (IASR), Photographs

Sibongile Mngoma works a 10-hour day, six days a week for R120 per month.

• ZA HPRA AG3014-B-B18
• Unidad documental simple

Parte deInstitute for Advanced Social Research (IASR), Photographs

Naumi Seroke (36) is a divorced mother of three. She was too scared to tell her employer that she was pregnant because she felt her employer had enough problems of her own.

• ZA HPRA AG3014-B-B19
• Unidad documental simple
• 1987

Parte deInstitute for Advanced Social Research (IASR), Photographs

Park in Illovo, Johannesburg

• ZA HPRA AG3014-B-B2
• Unidad documental simple
• 1986

Parte deInstitute for Advanced Social Research (IASR), Photographs

Sarah Molatlhegi (32) has worked for a white family in Johannesburg for 7 years.

• ZA HPRA AG3014-B-B20
• Unidad documental simple
• 1980s

Parte deInstitute for Advanced Social Research (IASR), Photographs

Sarah Molatlhegi with her son, parents, brothers and sisters at their home in Saulspoort, Bophuthatswana, She is busy building a new house.

• ZA HPRA AG3014-B-B21
• Unidad documental simple
• 1986

Parte deInstitute for Advanced Social Research (IASR), Photographs