Abstract

GAMEZ PEREZ, Irenia. «The Person who Helps Me at Home.» Remunerated Domestic Care Work, Cultures and Political Practices in the Middle Class of the Havana. Estud. Polit. [online]. 2021, n.60, pp.306-324.  Epub July 12, 2021. ISSN 0121-5167.  https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.espo.n60a13.

The problem of care -paid and unpaid- is a rare issue in Cuban public spheres. Based on an exploratory, qualitative and constructivist case study, this article proposes an approach to the ways in which paid domestic and care work is defined within the cultures and political practices of a group of small and medium-sized owners of private businesses that belong to the Havana middle classes. This research revealed the naturalized feminization of paid domestic work; the use of forms of verbal contracting and the distortion in labor relations towards «family relations». All of which is accompanied by the violation of rights, precariousness and legal helplessness in a scenario of shadows and silences, by the Cuban State and society in general.

Keywords : Public Sphere; Political Culture; Domestic Work; Medium Layers; Cuba.

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