INFÂNCIA ROUBADA: memórias de empregadas domésticas no trabalho e na educação escolar

Abstract

This is a study about an investigation about memories regarding to work and school education of women that were early inserted in domestic labor. It aims identifying the relationship that these women have with domestic labor since the childhood to the adult age, as well as identify the cultural and socioeconomic aspects of early insertion in domestic labor, investigate the work conditions, the main difficulties faced, the socioeconomic profile of the workers and their families, and also analyze the consequences of domestic labor in school education of the domestic workers. (MARX, 1983, ENGELS, 1985, HUBERMAN, 1986, LIBERATI & DIAS, 2006, MOURA 1999). Was studied the historical trajectory of infant-juvenile work from the transition of feudalism to capitalism and the industrial revolution to better comprehend the problem in its modern configuration. It is identified the poverty as a main cause of domestic work and the relations of production in a capitalist system as the cause of poverty. (MARX, 1983, ENGELS, 1985, HUBERMAN, 1986, SINGER, 1998, CIPOLA, 2001, BENJAMIN, 1998, CHIAVENATO, 1998). Is discussed the domestic labor by the point of view of the gender relationships and how it contributes to economical and psychological oppression of women. (PERROT, 2007, SAFFIOTI, 1981, SCOTT, 1995, BARBIERE, 1992, MELO, 1998, HAHNER, 1978). It is analyzed the social exclusion of women in labor market and the stigma of domestic labor depreciation. (DUPAS, 1999, BUARQUE,1999, PERROT, 2007, SAFFIOTI, 1981, SCOTT, 1995, BARBIERE, 1992, MELO, 1998, HAHNER, 1978). Is used as theoretical and methodological orientation the assumptions of historical and dialectical materialism, which better addresses the issue of labor. Taking in consideration that our study is about the woman, it indispensable a conjunction with feminist studies, by the point of view of gender relationships. This study was based on the domestic and scholar spaces, where the subject of this study works and attends. The result of this research reveals that the women workers come from very poor and big families, with large number of children and of rural origins. In their trajetory of work the women interviewed declared that they suffered several kinds of violence, including physical and sexual violence, in addition to extended working hours and disrespect to labor rights. Regarding to school education, the domestic work was determinative to the school abandon, low level of scholarship of the workers and reproduction of the unfair social conditions.