Abstract:
This present academic work seeks to analyze and criticize the contemporany slavery work in
the domestic context, having as fundamental assumptions the interconnection between
structural racism, in the sense of Marxist bias treated by Dora Lúcia Bertúlio (2021), despite
the author's own reservations about the limitation of this category regarding the treatment of
racial relations and contemporaneous slave labor. The work objects are the sentences
pronounced by the Labor Court and the Federal Court in the case of “E. D.” (abbreviation of
the name), which reveals a conception rooted in Brazilian structural racism, reinforcing
conceptions that make domestic work invisible in a situation analogous to slavery, as well as
the role of black women in Brazilian society. The special point relies on the enslaved work
fulfilled in the domestic sphere, whose statistical profile of its subjects reveals that it is mostly
realized by black women with a low level of education. Considering there are few statistical
data regarding cases of complaints, and even more so, the consequent judicialization of these
situations, this project decided to contribute to the analysis of the phenomenon in the light of a
specific case, which is, the judicial sentence referring to “E.D.” case, in order to develop
consonance between the judicial discourse used and the sociological concepts referring to the
central characteristic of this production. The method applied in this work was composed by
bibliographical review of books, articles, doctrines and publications available on governmental
and non-governmental websites, as well as the study and analysis of judicial decisions referring
to a specific case.
