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This article seeks to investigate boundary-work surrounding elderly care as a specific e occupation in Brazil. To this end, it analyzes the speeches produced by the State on the figure of the care worker, using documental analysis. Then it discusses the relevance of the strategic distancing between care workers and domestic workers, mobilizing qualitative research carried out between 2014 and 2017 in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo with: (1) companies that negotiate elderly care givers' services, working at home and; (2) caregivers who work in a public policy that offers home care. From an intersectional perspective, it is discussed how care workers who provide services at home seek to untangle themselves from domestic work, discursively framed as distinct, despite the proximity and imbrication between the fields of care and domestic services. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study highlights the social and labor relations between the liners engaged in domestic services, their former owners and the other workers of the nineteenth century Recife families. These relations were inluenced by the diferent conjunctures arising from the emancipationist politics of the imperial state and from the crisis of slavery in the second half of the nineteenth century. Grounded in paternalism, they produced dependent freedoms and continued exploitation and control, traditionally linked to slave labor, over them. On the other hand, these social relations were not only dictated by paternalism and domesticity. Maids and nurses, especially lining (forro) and free, were able to enjoy more and less autonomy and were part of the contractual logic of work, including demanding in court the payment of unpaid wages. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nos últimos anos, têm ocorrido transformações significativas no âmbito do trabalho no Brasil: mais formalizações de contratos de emprego, aumento real da renda dos trabalhadores e a ampliação de direitos até agora não reconhecidos, como os das trabalhadoras domésticas. O suporte que torna possível - não, evidentemente, o único - a ampliação dos direitos é o reconhecimento de valores que até agora não eram contemplados, dentro de um contexto favorável e de muitas lutas e pressões. Este artigo analisa alguns aspectos do paradoxo entre o estabelecimento de novos direitos e a real apropriação dos mesmos no mercado de trabalho de serviços domésticos. Essa defasagem entre o que a lei prescreve e o real do trabalho exige atenção às diversas racionalidades presentes neste mercado de trabalho e que frequentemente colocam em xeque os avanços da sociedade na luta por maior equidade. A análise mostra que há avanços e obstáculos na efetivação dos direitos das empregadas domésticas e que, para que a opção do desenvolvimento atual possa gerar os resultados esperados, é mister que as trabalhadoras domésticas se tornem sujeito de direito e não somente objeto das políticas.

ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE To describe the steps in the transcultural adaptation of the scale in the Effort-reward imbalance model to household and family work to the Brazilian context. METHODS We performed the translation, back-translation, and initial psychometric evaluation of the questionnaire that comprised three dimensions: (i) effort (eight items, emphasizing quantitative workload), (ii) reward (11 items that seek to capture the intrinsic value of family and household work, societal esteem, recognition from the spouse/partner, and affection from the children), and (iii) overcommitment (four items related to intrinsic effort). The scale was included in a sectional study conducted with 1,045 nursing workers. A subsample of 222 subjects answered the questionnaire for a second time, seven to 15 days thereafter. The data were collected between October 2012 and May 2013. The internal consistency of the scale was evaluated using Cronbach’s alpha and test-retest reliability analysis, square weighted kappa, prevalence and bias adjusted Kappa, and intraclass correlation coefficient. RESULTS Prevalence and bias-adjusted Kappa (ka) of the scale dimensions ranged from 0.80-0.83 for overcommitment, 0.78-0.90 for effort, and 0.76-0.93 for reward. In most dimensions, the values of minimum and maximum scores, average, standard deviation, and Cronbach’s alpha were similar in test and retest scores. Only on societal esteem subdimension (reward) was there little variation in standard deviation (test score of 2.24 and retest score of 3.36) and in Cronbach’s alpha coefficient (test score of 0.38 and retest score of 0.59). CONCLUSIONS The Brazilian version of the scale was found to have proper reliability indices regarding time stability, which suggests adapting it to be used in population with characteristics that are similar to the one in this study.

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