PAID DOMESTIC WORK: STRUCTURAL AND EMERGING CONTRADICTIONS IN SOCIAL RELATIONS IN BRAZIL

Abstract

This article analyzes paid domestic work in Brazil, seeking to articulate conjunctural and structural dimensions based on the determinations inscribed in the sexual and racial division of labor, which make it up as a wage labor field mainly occupied by women and, among them, black women, and marked by relations of exploitation and domination shaped by the imbrication of social relations of gender, race and class that cross the Brazilian social formation. The article analyzes how paid domestic work is at the core of the country's social contradictions as well as how the struggle of domestic workers and each moment of conquest resulting from this struggle trigger reactions that express the conflicts and social antagonisms inherent in these relationships.

Keywords: Housework; Home Employment; Social relationships; Social struggles