Mudanças e permanências: as condições de trabalho de domésticas diaristas e mensalistas de Salvador - Ba

Abstract

Paid domestic work in Brazil, over the years, has undergone significant transformations with the new conquests of labor rights and changes in its form of hiring. These changes have occurred in a context of work flexibilization in which the intensification of work is amplified through the adoption of flexible working hours and earnings for activities performed. Considering paid domestic work in this context of changes in the world of work, the study aims to understand the working conditions of daily and monthly paid domestic workers from Salvador. The empirical research was based on the application of questionnaires with 20 daily and monthly domestic workers. These questionnaires are based on three blocks of questions: the first block with questions containing general characteristics of paid domestic work, regardless of the form of hiring, in the second block questions specifically involving the domestic work of daily paid ones, in the third block, questions involving the work of monthly paid domestic workers. The study indicated that the domestic work of daily laborers appears as a flexible form of paid domestic work, which favores the maintenance of the precariousness of this form of work - a precariousness that also appears, persistently, in the work of monthly workers - and the reproduction of the social devaluation that strongly marks paid domestic work in Brazil.