Trabalho doméstico no Brasil: uma análise das transformações recentes

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to provide new data and issues in search of a better understanding about the theoretical and methodological domestic employment in contemporary Brazil. With a greater female participation in occupations of high specialization on the part of an elite female, this group needs to outsource domestic work, using the female workers unskilled and poorly educated. Only economic categories such as productivity, working hours and price of purchase and sale of the workforce, the study did not take sufficient account of paid domestic service, since it is required to understand a specific element of the activity is paid to its analogue, namely, unpaid domestic activity. From this assertion is to direct our gaze to the structural characteristics of the labor market, the establishment of the sexual division of labor, gender relations, class and race, as well as the analysis of migration flows in order to unlock hidden features and elements present in studies paid domestic work in Brazil, answering the research question: what are the elements that contribute to the maintenance of domestic employment in Brazil? For this task, this study intends to raise the changes in the composition of domestic employment in Brazil between the years 2001 to 2008 and analyze how factors such as gender, race, education, migration and family formation affect the creation of domestic employment Brazil. The methodology is based on quantitative descriptive and multivariate analyzes of data from the Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílio (PNAD / IBGE) and concludes not be visible disappearance of domestic labor in Brazil.