Abstract

VELHO, Gilberto. Bosses and domestic workers. Sociologia, Problemas e Práticas [online]. 2012, n.69, pp.13-30. ISSN 0873-6529.  https://doi.org/10.7458/SPP201269784.

This article is based on the author’s personal experience with female domestic workers. It is thus an ethnography marked by a personal testimony about various years in which the author interacted and spent time with this social category. The idea is above all to offer an ethnographic commentary on relations between social categories in contemporary Brazilian society, which is in a process of transformation. The gender question is also present, inasmuch as the article analyses the relationship between a male employer - the “boss” - and his female domestic servants. Another intention behind the text is to show the value of research on daily life in contemporary homes.

Keywords : bosses and domestic work; daily life; gender; projects and aspirations; social change.

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