Com afinco e com afeto: um estudo das atividades laborais das empregadas domésticas no município de Vitória/ES

Abstract

This paper aims to understand the relationship of domestic servants in capitalist society, its vulnerabilities and devaluations. To do so, it is necessary to analyze the history of domestic servants in Brazil, the division between public and private spaces and the overvaluation of productive work in relation to reproductive work. From the view that domestic servants are marginalized and that this is the result of Brazilian slavery, it is necessary to analyze these workers from the Theory of Redistribution of Nancy Fraser in counterpoint to the Theory of Recognition of Axel Honneth. Making domestic servants visible and consequently giving them the redistribution they so badly need, so that they can exercise the fundamental rights guaranteed by the Brazilian Constitution, causes these female workers to fight for the recognition of their class identity and obtain the recognition that housework is a decent job. Through the accomplishment of quantitative and qualitative research, in the neighborhood of Praia do Canto in Vitória / ES, it was possible to understand the reality of domestic servants and the mixture between affection and employment relations.