Abstract
Considering the context of flexibilization and precariousness of work and its consequences, differentiated according to gender, this article presents a study of the social trajectory of outsourced workers in the Cleaning sector at the State University of Campinas. The ways in which they perceive, experience and react to their work situations are the object of study, that seeks to understand the reasons and strategies that make "acceptable" the instability, insecurity and low income that characterize this job.
Female work; Outsourcing; Casualization of work; Social mobility; Resistance