Abstract:
Domestic workers represent around 6 million workers in this category, a profession
that has been present in Brazil since the early years of colonization. Although domestic
work is crucial for the production and reproduction of care, the category still does not
enjoy full rights. Among the list of rights that the category does not yet have is access
to food. The aim of this research is to understand FNS in the working conditions of
domestic workers who work in any type of job in the municipality of Salvador. It is a
qualitative study whose methodology is based on Comprehensive Theories and
Hermeneutics-Dialectics as a perspective for analysis. The research revealed aspects
such as the experience of hunger in the workplace, the offer of leftovers, food
surveillance mechanisms, violence with food as a mediator, the development of
mechanisms for access to food, some experiences of food dignity, among other
correlated aspects intrinsically linked to the axes of gender, race and class domination.
The conclusion is that food in domestic service lacks human dignity. The existence of
a legal provision does not seem to have sufficient force to change the experience of
food in the workplace, a product of the structural interaction of racism and sexism,
associated with class dynamics.
