Trabalho doméstico e geografia: a criação de significados a partir de que horas ela volta? por trabalhadoras do município de Concórdia - SC

Abstract

In the contemporary world, work is seen as a fundamental element for thinking about the ways that societies build space, insofar as it occupies a considerable fraction of the time, energy and reasoning of the daily life of a large number of people. In recent decades, Geography has been renewed as a socially critical field, bringing together concerns around the production of social life, the reproduction of inequalities and human spatiality. Geographers have claimed that, with the global hegemony of capitalism, work and the production of space in general have been transformed in a similar direction, in which their possibilities of use and appropriation are confused and lost in their exchange value, which results in an unfair and unequal society. Although it is still little discussed, the category of domestic work occupies an important place in this scenario, in many cases revealing this serious contradiction between capital and work, between property and appropriation as an element of the production of space in capitalism. As will be argued, the condition faced by those who practice the profession is not just a matter of individual behavior, judicial regulation or the economic situation, but rather reflects elements of a historical, cultural and geographic nature in Brazil, despite being able to manifest regional and/or local specificities, or in relation to the world. To think about these particularities of domestic work in Brazil, not only the role of economic and material factors were taken into account, but also the role of culture and representations. In general, the work involves the articulation between the work debate and a cultural approach in Geography, in addition to seeking to give voice to workers and their experiences in the field. The research aims to analyze the relationship between social representations of domestic work and the creation of meanings by domestic workers in the mcity of Concórdia - SC based on the work The Second Mother (2015). To achieve this objective, a focus group was chosen, where the film was shown and followed by a debate among the participants, seeking to bring out a variety of perspectives on each point. As a result, several themes, experiences and symbols that refer to their practice as domestic workers were brought to the group.