Domestic workers in Peru represent approximately 3,4% (342 192) of the economically active population of the country (Defensoria del Pueblo 2011). These workers are overwhelmingly poor women, un- or under-educated, and from ethnic and linguistic minorities, working in an informal environment (Legua Bordon 2017; Mick 2011; Perez and Llanos 2017, and Rottenbacher de Rojas 2015). Even though in 2003 the Peruvian government introduced Law 27896, which aims to regulate domestic work and protect domestic workers, the field remains a dangerous, precarious environment for the workers employed (ILO 2011). This thesis explores the manifold everyday strategies that domestic workers in Lima, Peru, utilize to resist violence in the workplace. Instances of violence and resistance have been observed to change and evolve throughout the experiences of the participants, from the beginning of their careers, until today. Nonetheless, the presence of violence has remained a reality in the everyday lives of domestic workers interviewed. The strategies of resistance utilized to fight these forms of violence have been placed into three broader categories; flight, survival, and active resistance, all of which are observed to enjoy a different degree of success. The most effective forms of resistance observed included (1) attaining a higher education, (2) survival, in the form of staying close to the family pet or children, and (3) negotiation, in the form of threatening to leave the job.