O artigo retoma o tema da história do trabalho doméstico enquanto cidadania invisível, grande contradição da ordem jurídica burguesa que se afirma em torno da unificação do sujeito de direito: uma sociedade nivelada com base na igualdade entre cidadãos proprietários, em que não há mais lugar para a condição servil, ao menos em teoria. Em virtude da nítida separação entre família e trabalho, na família burguesa o trabalho doméstico se torna sempre mais uma prerrogativa feminina. Um trabalho sem direitos, fundado ainda sob uma ideia de benevolência que não pode ser contratualizada. O trabalho doméstico foi regulado na Itália em 1958, momento em que, na era da modernização social e do milagre econômico, as famílias encontraram sempre mais dificuldades para achar profissionais domésticos. O serviço doméstico, cada vez mais em declínio no plano social, reaparece nos anos noventa no trabalho de cuidadores dentro do fenômeno da assistência aos idosos não autossuficientes. Encontram-se, assim, duas debilidades que o direito vê somente em parte: a fragilidade e a solidão dos idosos de um lado, e a pobreza das cuidadoras que, na busca por um futuro melhor, aceitam uma condição fora dos parâmetros do direito do trabalho.

The paper discusses the history of domestic labor as invisible citizenship, making it a great contradiction within the bourgeois juridical order that was consolidated around the notion of the individual as a subject of rights: a society organized around the idea of equality between citizens deined as property owner, and where – at least in theory – there was no place for servitude of any kind. Thanks to the clear separation between family and work, domestic labor in the bourgeois family increasingly became a female prerogative: Labor without rights, still founded on the idea of benevolence, therefore opposed to the idea and the practice of contract. In Italy, legal regulations about domestic work were introduced in 1958, in a context deined by social modernization and “economic miracle”, and by the shrinking ofer of domestic labor to the middle class families. Despite its general social decline in the following decades, domestic work had a new surge in the 1990s, associated with care work, and the growing need for assistance for elderly people with special needs. Two problems raised from this new situation, that the Law was only partially capable to see and deal with: on the one side, elderly people solitude and physical vulnerability, and on the other the poverty of the care workers, mostly female, that, facing the incertitude of the future, accept to work outside the legal parameters of the labor laws.

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Passaniti, P. (2018). A cidadania submersa. O trabalho doméstico entre os séculos XIX e XX. REVISTA MUNDOS DO TRABALHO, 10(20), 15-30 [10.5007/1984-9222.2018v10n20p15].

A cidadania submersa. O trabalho doméstico entre os séculos XIX e XX

Passaniti Paolo
2018-01-01

Abstract

The paper discusses the history of domestic labor as invisible citizenship, making it a great contradiction within the bourgeois juridical order that was consolidated around the notion of the individual as a subject of rights: a society organized around the idea of equality between citizens deined as property owner, and where – at least in theory – there was no place for servitude of any kind. Thanks to the clear separation between family and work, domestic labor in the bourgeois family increasingly became a female prerogative: Labor without rights, still founded on the idea of benevolence, therefore opposed to the idea and the practice of contract. In Italy, legal regulations about domestic work were introduced in 1958, in a context deined by social modernization and “economic miracle”, and by the shrinking ofer of domestic labor to the middle class families. Despite its general social decline in the following decades, domestic work had a new surge in the 1990s, associated with care work, and the growing need for assistance for elderly people with special needs. Two problems raised from this new situation, that the Law was only partially capable to see and deal with: on the one side, elderly people solitude and physical vulnerability, and on the other the poverty of the care workers, mostly female, that, facing the incertitude of the future, accept to work outside the legal parameters of the labor laws.
2018
Passaniti, P. (2018). A cidadania submersa. O trabalho doméstico entre os séculos XIX e XX. REVISTA MUNDOS DO TRABALHO, 10(20), 15-30 [10.5007/1984-9222.2018v10n20p15].
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