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| Author(s): |
Júlia Vargas Batista
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas |
| Defense date: | 2024-01-30 |
| Examining board members: |
Susana Durão;
José Dari Krein;
Thays Almeida Monticelli
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| Advisor: | Susana Durão |
| Abstract | |
This research aims to investigate the universe of employers in paid domestic work in Brazil. This is a field crossed by a series of historical and structural inequalities of class, race and gender, where the ambiguous relationships between employers and domestic workers are places of class formation and distinction (Goldstein, 2009). In this sense, focusing research on the universe of domestic employers is fundamental for a broader understanding of these relationships. Also driven by the need to look "up" (Nader, 2020), at whiteness and the Brazilian middle classes, and considering the historical, social and economic importance of domestic service in Brazil, I turn my gaze to the world of employers, with the main thread being a mapping and analysis of employers' unions activities in Brazilian domestic work. Thus, this research aims to qualitatively analyze subjective dimensions from the perspective of domestic employers on issues such as labor legislation, relations with workers, hiring criteria, as well as their collective organization and representation strategies. In this sense, the research has been carried out based on an ethnographic incursion made up of multiple sources and data collection methods, such as documents and records of domestic employers' unions in Brazil since 1989, analysis of content and publications on social networks, research into national and state newspapers, and semi-structured interviews with individual domestic employers, including a leader and two members of one of the unions. I will try to reflect on the employers' speeches as well as on the trajectory and actions of the domestic employers' unions in Brazil, considering their contradictions, strategies and positions over the years, which highlight ambiguity and hybridity as fundamental marks of paid domestic work relationships. It was thus possible to observe how these agents have historically positioned themselves with regard to the TDR and domestic workers, what demands and expectations employers have put forward, and how they view current labor legislation (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 21/03417-6 - The employer's world in focus: class, race and gender in domestic work |
| Grantee: | Júlia Vargas Batista |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |