“…A study by Brites (2014) shows similar development in Brazil. Brites argues that the positive sociological dimensions of the employer-employee relationship, based on either reciprocity or on the basic morality of the employer, work as enabling factors for the well-being of domestic workers.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 64%
“…Within the domestic work set‐up, more women are subjected to poorly paid, precarious, and exploitative working conditions (International Labour Organization, ; Palriwala & Neetha, ; Tous, Veasna & Cormaci, ). Even in countries such as Brazil, where domestic workers' organizations have succeeded in including domestic work into the general social security system, these achievements are challenged, resulting in lower pay and lack of social benefit coverage (Brites, ). We hypothesize, therefore, that employment arrangements and relationship factors are an important means to ensure fair and decent conditions for domestic workers in practice.Hypothesis 1: Employee‐employer relationship factors impact the economic well‐being of domestic workers.Hypothesis 2: Clarity of work arrangement impacts the economic well‐being of domestic workers.…”
Section: Literature Review and Hypothesis Developmentmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Living in the home of the employer entails being available around the clock, working more hours on average, and, in most cases, physical and emotional isolation from women's own families (International Labour Organization, ; United Nations, ). For both employment scenarios, several studies have illustrated domestic workers' exploitation along the lines of low wages, long working hours, unsafe and undignified working conditions, and vulnerability to physical, mental, and sexual abuse (seminal works include Bernardino‐Costa, ; Brites, ; Chen, ; Gorban & Tizziani, ; International Labour Organization, ; Tokman, ; Williams, ).…”
This article explores the intersectional role played by the various categories of workplace dynamics of female domestic workers in India. It models crucial aspects of a range of workplace conditions and employee‐employer relationship and empowerment factors, as predictors of the economic well‐being of domestic workers. The analysis is based on a questionnaire survey of 487 domestic workers in two cities of the Indian state of Karnataka, conducted July–December 2014. The prediction models reveal intersectionality: female domestic workers are disadvantaged by inequalities caused by two unique aspects of their work, namely, the feminization of this work as naturalized labor that women do because of their innate caring characteristics, and the employer‐employee relationship where the focus of work is the intimate private space of the employer. Empowerment factors, therefore, become additionally significant for their protection from exploitation and abuse. This paper highlights the conflicting role played by empowerment and concludes by discussing implications for legislation and policy.
“…A study by Brites (2014) shows similar development in Brazil. Brites argues that the positive sociological dimensions of the employer-employee relationship, based on either reciprocity or on the basic morality of the employer, work as enabling factors for the well-being of domestic workers.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 64%
“…Within the domestic work set‐up, more women are subjected to poorly paid, precarious, and exploitative working conditions (International Labour Organization, ; Palriwala & Neetha, ; Tous, Veasna & Cormaci, ). Even in countries such as Brazil, where domestic workers' organizations have succeeded in including domestic work into the general social security system, these achievements are challenged, resulting in lower pay and lack of social benefit coverage (Brites, ). We hypothesize, therefore, that employment arrangements and relationship factors are an important means to ensure fair and decent conditions for domestic workers in practice.Hypothesis 1: Employee‐employer relationship factors impact the economic well‐being of domestic workers.Hypothesis 2: Clarity of work arrangement impacts the economic well‐being of domestic workers.…”
Section: Literature Review and Hypothesis Developmentmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Living in the home of the employer entails being available around the clock, working more hours on average, and, in most cases, physical and emotional isolation from women's own families (International Labour Organization, ; United Nations, ). For both employment scenarios, several studies have illustrated domestic workers' exploitation along the lines of low wages, long working hours, unsafe and undignified working conditions, and vulnerability to physical, mental, and sexual abuse (seminal works include Bernardino‐Costa, ; Brites, ; Chen, ; Gorban & Tizziani, ; International Labour Organization, ; Tokman, ; Williams, ).…”
This article explores the intersectional role played by the various categories of workplace dynamics of female domestic workers in India. It models crucial aspects of a range of workplace conditions and employee‐employer relationship and empowerment factors, as predictors of the economic well‐being of domestic workers. The analysis is based on a questionnaire survey of 487 domestic workers in two cities of the Indian state of Karnataka, conducted July–December 2014. The prediction models reveal intersectionality: female domestic workers are disadvantaged by inequalities caused by two unique aspects of their work, namely, the feminization of this work as naturalized labor that women do because of their innate caring characteristics, and the employer‐employee relationship where the focus of work is the intimate private space of the employer. Empowerment factors, therefore, become additionally significant for their protection from exploitation and abuse. This paper highlights the conflicting role played by empowerment and concludes by discussing implications for legislation and policy.
“…Black women have traversed from enslaved servants to poorly paid domestic workers, enabling white women to access more qualified and highly aid professions (Bruschini 2007;Lovell 2006). Domestic work today is still characterised by high levels of informality, lower wages, lower levels of protection, and abusive and stratified relationships with employers (Ávila 2016;Brites 2014;De Souza and Cerqueira 2009;DIEESE 2013). Crucially, this direct legacy of slavery has meant that domestic work was not recognised as proper work but as 'help' provided to households, and the 'natural' place of black women.…”
Section: A Subaltern Epistemology Of Rights: Framing Domestic Work Asmentioning
This study explores the labour rights discourse produced by Brazilian domestic workers. It shows that the 2015 Brazilian legislation which extended labour rights to domestic workers was not simply a ‘boomerang effect’ of ILO Convention 189 on decent work for domestic workers, or a case of the ‘vernacularisation’ of global rights. Indeed, domestic workers have agitated for equal labour rights since 1936, and articulated the specific rights contained in the new legislation decades before their institutional recognition. Therefore, rather than being an instance of the translation of pre-existing global frameworks at the local level, the case of domestic workers demonstrates the ability of subaltern groups to transnationalise their demands, suggesting that the global South should not be conceived only as a place of rights reception, but also as a place of rights production. In this context, I trace the genealogy of the labour rights discourse as imagined and mobilised by domestic workers in Brazil, and examine the ways in which they have travelled between their subaltern location, the Brazilian state and the international agenda about ‘decent work.’
“…El arreglo informal de este empleo sigue existiendo por la necesidad que tienen las mujeres de bajos recursos de trabajar para mantenerse ellas y sus familias, y por la entrada de las mujeres de clase media a la fuerza laboral. Se han realizado estudios importantes sobre el trabajo remunerado del hogar en América Latina y el Caribe (Brites, 2014;Chaney y Garcia Castro, 1991;Goldsmith 2006;Gorbán, 2013;Gorbán y Tizziani, 2014;Karides, 2002;Pereyra, 2013), y en los Estados Unidos y otros países (Ehrenreich y Hochschild, 2004;Hondagneu-Sotelo, 2007;Lan, 2006;Romero, 2002). Estos estudios investigan el trabajo del hogar en el contexto de la desigualdad socioeconómica, y examinan cómo este trabajo ayuda a mantener esta desigualdad.…”
El trabajo remunerado del hogar (trh) hace borrosa la distinción tradicional entre el trabajo productivo (que produce utilidades) y el trabajo reproductivo (reproducción social), lo cual influye el contexto en el cual se desarrollan movimientos laborales de trh. El presente artículo presenta un estudio de caso considerando tres retos que enfrenta un movimiento social de trh en Guayaquil, Ecuador. La organización investigada enfrenta estos retos con una gama de estrategias y actividades, entre ellas la redefinición del trh como «trabajo regular» o un «trabajo como cualquier otro». ¿Habrá ventaja en usar la táctica retórica de igualdad con otros empleos para promover los derechos de las que desempeñan la reproducción social?
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