The Alchemy Between Social Categories in the Production of Political Subjects: Class, Gender, Race and Generation in the Case of Domestic Workers' Union Leaders in Salvador-Bahia, Brazil

Castro, Mary García

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“…Its class‐theoretic analysis of domestic workers’ conditions had far greater influence in shaping their political consciousness than did the analysis of feminists and black activists. Even when a leadership began to emerge within domestic workers’ organizations, they felt they had more in common with the black movement despite its machista (macho) orientation than with the primarily white and middle‐class feminist movement, many of whose members were their employers (Castro, ).…”

Section: Women Workers and Domestic Markets: The Locally Driven Politmentioning

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Women Workers and the Politics of Claims Making: The Local and the Global

Kabeer¹

2018

Development and Change

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This article analyses the evolving politics of claims making in relation to women workers in the global South. It asks what claims are being made and by whom, who these claims are addressed to and what strategies are being employed to press these claims. It distinguishes between women working for global markets and those working for domestic markets in order to identify possible differences in constraints, priorities and opportunities underlying these strategies. It also distinguishes between the different kinds of organizations involved in making claims: organizations of women workers, organizations working with women workers and organizations working on behalf of women workers. The article is one of several papers forming a cluster on feminist mobilizations.

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Section: Women Workers and Domestic Markets: The Locally Driven Politmentioning

confidence: 99%

Women Workers and the Politics of Claims Making: The Local and the Global

Kabeer¹

2018

Development and Change

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“…Both parties activate or react to "demarcation repertories" (Gorbán 2012) instituted through everyday interactions, seeking either to highlight their similarities or their distance to each other. García Castro 1989;García Castro 1993;Goldsmith 2007Goldsmith , 2010Goldsmith , 2013aGoldsmith , 2013bGoldsmith , 2015Mather 2013;Orsatti 2010Orsatti ,2015Prates 1993;Rojas Scheffer 2018Soto 2014Soto , 2016Soto , 2017.…”

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Physically Close, Socially Distant Paid Domestic Work and (Dis-)Encounters in Latin America’s Private Households

Scheffer¹

2020

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Households that hire domestic workers are a space of compulsive encounters where people of different origins and social class meet, experiencing physical proximity that makes the social distance that prevails between them even more noticeable. Drawing on current research and scholarship on paid domestic work in Latin America, this paper explores the different ways of analysing the encounters of women from highly unequal social positions in the narrowness of the private household, arguing that the combination of physical proximity and affective ties fosters the (re)production of social inequalities and asymmetries of power. But while it is within the convivial relations of these households that inequality becomes evident, it is also there where it can be negotiated, fought, or mitigated. Households that hire domestic workers are thus a privileged site for observing negotiations and disputes concerning social inequalities, and hence, a critical context to study the reciprocal constitution of conviviality and inequality.

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“…I have already mentioned that paid domestic work is not only an occupation typically performed by women from lower social classes, but also by racialised women. This is related to historical colonial relations (Bernardino-Costa 2007, 2014Cumes 2014;Durin 2014aDurin , 2014bGarcía Castro 1993), as well as to the aforementioned migration processes: The fact that migrant women tend to be employed mainly as domestic workers is often linked to differences between employer and worker that are visible to the naked eye, such as skin colour or other physical features. But these differences are sometimes more subtle, particularly when domestic workers are citizens of the country in which they work.…”

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Articulating Differences and Inequalities Paid Domestic Workers’ and Housewives’ Struggles for Rights in Uruguay and Paraguay

Rojas¹

2019

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Housewives and paid domestic workers perform – to a certain extent – the same kinds of tasks. They also tend to share interest in the valorisation of domestic work: If this activity were recognised as such – as work – housewives could claim retirement rights, while domestic workers should be granted the same labour rights as any other worker. But even when sharing the historical burden of house and care work, there are other social hierarchies that interrupt the common experience of these women and hinder the creation of alliances between them. This paper analyses the relationship between paid domestic workers’ and housewives’ organisations in Uruguay and Paraguay, two Latin American countries that share many similarities in terms of territorial extension, population and economy size, but show contrasts regarding the organisation of domestic workers, particularly their relation to housewives’ organisations. Drawing on interviews and participant observations carried out in Montevideo and Asunción – the capital cities of Uruguay and Paraguay – I discuss how the negotiations of differences are intertwined with disputes over inequalities, describing how ‘racialised’ contexts use ethnic differences to naturalise the undervaluing of domestic workers and justify the subordinated position they assume in society.

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The Alchemy Between Social Categories in the Production of Political Subjects: Class, Gender, Race and Generation in the Case of Domestic Workers' Union Leaders in Salvador-Bahia, Brazil

Cited by 9 publications

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Women Workers and the Politics of Claims Making: The Local and the Global

Women Workers and the Politics of Claims Making: The Local and the Global

Physically Close, Socially Distant Paid Domestic Work and (Dis-)Encounters in Latin America’s Private Households

Articulating Differences and Inequalities Paid Domestic Workers’ and Housewives’ Struggles for Rights in Uruguay and Paraguay

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