Gender and race markers in the condition of paid domestic workers' access to social security in Brazil
Paid Domestic Work; Social Rights; Labor Law, Social Security Law
The objective of this dissertation is to analyze the condition of paid domestic workers in Brazil during the 20th and 21st centuries. In order to achieve this, the study employs the theoretical frameworks of the coloniality of power, the matrix of domination, control images, intersectionality, and social reproduction theory. The research integrates quantitative and qualitative data, interviews with paid domestic workers, as well as historical and legislative analysis, in an effort to construct a profile of domestic workers and subsequently contextualize them within the structure of social security in the capitalist system, and its specific manifestation in Brazil.We discuss the condition of paid domestic workers from the perspective of gender and race relations in social security law, and the constitution of subjects of labor and social security law. After mapping the exclusions from law and social security policy, the dissertation considers how the conditions of peripheral capitalism and gender and race discriminations impact the social security protection of these workers. Through this analysis, it provides a theoretical-analytical contribution on the condition of paid domestic workers in Brazil; social security policy, highlighting the greater social vulnerabil