Serviço Social em Revista (Jul 2016)

Work at home: Elements to think the conciliation strategies between work and family

  • Patricia Maccarini Moraes

DOI
https://doi.org/10.5433/1679-4842.2016v18n2p73
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 18, no. 2
pp. 73 – 92

Abstract

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The productive restructuring has made a flexibility of labor relations, generating outsourcing, unemployment, deregulation of contracts and right labor. In the textile industry, household labor grows, what represents the worker’s self exploitation. The home becomes a place of production and reproduction. It allows women to exercise a productive activity, keeping the reproduction tasks. It is considers that the work at home is used as a compromise strategy between work and family. This issue deserves attention of social policies regarding labor rights and the families care policies.

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