O trabalho a domicílio das mulheres do cariri paraibano no polo de confecções do agreste de Pernambuco.

Abstract

The subsequent study aims to analyse the new framework of work relations in the Cariri communities of Paraíba, following the expansion of commercial and productive activities by the Centre for Garments of the Interior of Pernambuco in that particular region. The approach focuses particularly on the conditions of female participation within those activities, especially the conditions of seamstresses, and the outcomes resulting from certain social developments. We propose to carry out an indepth examination with regareis to housework, gender relations and rural/urban boundaries in order to encapsulate the principal aspeets of this topic. In doing so, we shall reconstruct the trajectories of some of these women and investigate how the production of Sulanca (a garment native to the Cariri) carne to be established in the region, and the implications that this has brought to gender/work relations.