Through the accounts of women and men situated along different points of the transnational circuit, this chapter traces villagers’ experiences with changing political economic regimes in Zapotitlán and New York City. Some Zapotitecos/as responded to the economic crisis in Mexico of the 1980s by migrating to the United States, while others, especially women, increased their participation in waged work, particularly in recently established garment factories that produced for domestic and international markets. As the crisis deepened in the 1990s with the devaluation of the peso, migration accelerated, and many more men and women migrated north to work in New York’s expanding service sector. Providing for families’ basic needs appeared to be “progress” against the backdrop of worsening conditions of social reproduction in Mexico. As low-waged service workers Zapotitecos/as struggled to meet the basic social reproductive requirements for their families. While the women’s labor and migration trajectories demonstrate the ways in which flexibility, precarity and disposability traverse their working lives on both sides of the border, they also show how they have moved through different class positions with respect to the wage relationship. In the final section, the discussion turns to the forms of discipline which traverse gendered, “illegal” subjects laboring as restaurant workers, domestics and garment factory workers. We note how collective class struggle is abandoned and replaced by a repressive individualism in which problems are internalized and can only be resolved by the individual working on him or herself.