TRACES OF COLONIALITY IN DOMESTIC WORK

LABOR VULNERABILITY AND THE FIRST RESCUE OF DOMESTIC SLAVE LABOR IN MANAUS/AM

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https://doi.org/10.46560/meritum.v20i1.10099

Abstract

This article proposes to present a social legal analysis of the labor vulnerability of domestic slave labor in contemporary times. Using as a case, the first rescue of domestic slave labor in the city of Manaus/AM. Thus, the present research has as its general objective to analyze the processes of subjectivation that give rise to domestic slave labor in the face of the legal labor scenario of domestic work. As a question-problem, we sought to answer to what extent labor vulnerability is considered when the rules and criteria in the relationship between employer and domestic worker are defined in a domestic environment and according to the consent of the one who employs? To this end, the study is amusing the division of labor into three chapters that are revealed in the specific objectives of the work, namely: Discuss the structural composition of the attribution of domestic work to women, going through the legislative direction of the themes of domestic work and work in conditions analogous to slavery. Next, it is proposed to address the dimensions of the physical and social risks of the victim of domestic slave labor. Finally, it makes a case study of the first case of rescue of domestic slave labor in the city of Manaus/AM. The elective methodology in this research referred to a qualitative study, involving legal-social reflexivity. Bibliographic surveys and legal provisions in the protection of domestic workers were carried out, with cross-cutting research proposals and dialogues between law and psychology. It is affirmed that the context of domestic slave labor is inferred from a labor context marked by the absence of structure and devaluation of human labor, compromising the configuration and what belongs to the worker's identity, accentuating the modes of suffering in relation to work. In addition to the intense objection of precariousness, potentiating traumas as a result of violence and deprivation of freedom.

 

Keywords: domestic work; domestic slave labor; labor vulnerability; first rescue case; women in conditions similar to slavery.

 

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Carla Vidal Gontijo Almeida, Universidade Federal do Amazonas

Professor Adjunta na Faculdade de Direito da Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Professora Permanente do Programa de Pós-graduação em Direito da UFAM/PPGDIR. Doutora em Psicologia pela PUC/MINAS. Mestre pela FPL/MG, Especialista em Direito do Trabalho e Processo Civil. Advogada.  Pesquisadora Líder do grupo de pesquisa do CNPQ - Compliance no meio ambiente do trabalho e hiperfuncionamento laboral. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2890-7803. Contato: carlavidal@ufam.edu.br.

Josany Keise de Souza David, Universidade Federal do amazonas

Advogada. Mestra em Constitucionalismo e Direitos na Amazônia pela Universidade Federal do Amazonas. Pesquisadora do Grupo de Pesquisa em Direito Antidiscriminatório e Marginalizações Sociais na Amazônia. Graduada em Direito pelo Centro Universitário Fametro. Graduada em Pedagogia pela Universidade Federal do Amazonas. Especialista em Informática na Educação pelo Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Estado do Amazonas. Atualmente é Assessora Técnica - Jurídica na Rede Municipal de Ensino na Secretaria Municipal de Manaus/AM.

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9741-4239 Contato: davidjosany@gmail.com

Tarciana Moreira Alexandrino, Universidade Federal do Amazonas

Graduada em Direito pela Universidade Regional do Cariri-URCA, e especialização em Direito Penal e Processual Penal pelo Centro Universitário do Norte-UNINORTE. Mestra em Direito pela Universidade Federal do Amazonas-UFAM. Possui Gradução em História pela Universidade Regional do Cariri-URCA, com especialização em História e Sociologia, também pela Universidade Regional do Cariri-URCA. Atualmente desenvolve as funções de docente na Faculdade Estácio do Amazonas, Pesquisadora e Advogada. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2400-2911 E-mail: tarcianaalexandrino@gmail.com

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23/08/2026

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