Cotidiano e práticas de resistência - um estudo etnográfico com trabalhadoras domésticas militantes

Abstract

This work presents the multisituated ethnographic research performed with militant domestic workers of Pelotas-RS, contemporaneously. This anthropological research aims to understand the development of resistance practices in everydaylife of trade union domestic workers, in addition to institutional activities of the trade union. Ethnography was carried out, especially, with four interlocutors, namely: Ernestina, Terezinha, Leda and Claudia. The research universe is composed of photographs and testimonies of joint production of photobiographies of four militants and the internal environment of trade union, where, through participant observation, I followed attendances, meetings and get-togethers. The photobiographies revealed the militants life stories, as also the figth of domestic workers for decades. From this, with the photographs and testimonies that made working the memories of these women, the history of the trade union domestic workers movement in Brazil was counted, highlighting, especially, the connections and influences of the Catholic Church, the Black Movement and feminists NGOs. The participant observation, with the prolonged contact with unionists in attendances and meetings of everydaylife of trade union, evidenced the existence of a care work linked to bureaucracies, as also communication and learning related to use graphic materials, as well as the dynamized sociability relations between the family and trade union. In short, the dissertation seeks to understand the development of resistance practices from life histories and of the history of domestic workers movement to the peculiarities of internal environment of bureaucracies and sociabilities of Pelotas trade union. With this, was understood that there is a network of sociability and militancy that guides the principal trade union practices, not being restricted to historically consolidated partners. Thus, the trade union bureaucracies, sociability relations, leisure and family, together with historical partners, in an inseparable way dynamize everydaylife resistance practices.