As negras que conheci: uma análise sobre o cotidiano das trabalhadoras domésticas da cidade de Cruz das Almas - BA

Abstract

The domestic labor in Brazil is one of the most socially undervalued, focusing a series of exclude features such as low pay, working hours and extensive contracting margins of legality. Several authors of the racial issue, gender, and that focus specifically on domestic labor comprise a relationship between this activity and colonial past of slavery that marked perversely the Brazilian population (GRAHAN 1992, BACELAR 2008, KOFES 2001).This activity being performed by the female population black and poor, incorporates gender and race discrimination to elect the specific role of black women in society. As a result this is a vastly undervalued nationwide, however, smaller cities that are beyond the logic of the great centers – like the city of Cruz das Almas- BA - protecting some features that extend this devaluation - as the extreme subordination and exploitation of the home-mades.