Desvalor desvalor jurídico do trabalho reprodutivo: uma crítica político econômica do feminismo ao Direito

Abstract

Labor Law, as a legal branch that seeks to regulate subordinate human labor, ultimately reflects forms of social devaluation, legally crystallizing the inequalities present in the social field by failing to provide, totally or partially, protections to certain ways of labor. This is what happens with reproductive work. The importance of the theme is indisputable, to verify the social and juridical devaluation attributed to this form of labor, which is often not even understood as work and, consequently, inserted in the sphere of affection. Therefore, under the legal-theoretical method, we use the contributions of the feminist economy, a group of thinkers who develop studies by problematizing the classical constructions about what is meant by work: they propose that this concept should be reformulated, expanding it to problematize the economic-juridical marginalization of the work related to the sphere of social reproduction. Finally, elements are raised for the debate on a possible fair justification of reproductive work, which recognizes its social centrality and its value.