Intimidação, segregação e resistência: um estudo sobre patroas violentas e empregadas resistentes em algumas casas da Cidade de Maputo

Abstract

This paper analyzes the relationship between employers and employers in the context of violence. The subject has been discussed from three perspectives. The first defends that the bosses violate the employees because they have power and the second defends that the bosses violate the employees because they have inherited the patriarchal gender power. These explanations make it possible to understand the power of the bosses against the maids, but they do not understand the response of the maids. It is a third perspective that understands that the relationship between the bosses and the employees is negotiated and not only of the bosses' violence against the employees. From an ethnographic study carried out in some parts of the city of Maputo, I looked at the employers and the employers and understood that the violence of the former against the latter it manifests on the one hand through intimidation, as threats of wage cuts and redundancies and on the other, through segregation in the use of different bathrooms and different consumption of food. Faced with these situations, the employees react through direct strategies, which consist of immediate complaints that sometimes lead to compromises or through indirect strategies, which consist in telling people who are trustworthy of the bosses or do not comply with the bosses' orders. The results of the present study allow me to conclude that, if on the one hand the bosses develop mechanisms of violence against the employees, on the other hand the employees react through several direct and indirect actions. This conclusion allows me to distance myself from the perspective of power that argues that employers abuse women because they have power and from the gender perspective that considers that employers abuse women employed by women. have inherited gender inequality, and it allows me to reinforce the post-structuralist perspective that argues that there are negotiation processes between employers and employers. (TRADUÇÃO NOSSA)