L Acciari
Biographic Data
| ID | 45033 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L Acciari |
| GIVEN NAMES | L |
| FAMILY NAME | Acciari |
| SIGNATURE | ACCIARI L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2335-7948 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Beyond Vulnerabilities. Gendered Forms of Resistance During the Pandemic Crisis
This paper proposes to explore social relations of gender and care during the Covid-19 crisis in Latin America. Based on empirical examples of actions led by domestic workers in Brazil and the Dominican Republic, I argue that gender can be a resource for collective action. Gender is usually understood as a factor of inequality in disaster contexts, rendering women more ‘vulnerable’. During the Covid-19 pandemic, women were hit harder by unemploym…
Da crise do cuidado ao cuidado como exploração: Quem se importa com as trabalhadoras domésticas
Si bien la pandemia ha reavivado el debate sobre la «crisis del cuidado», en la práctica, poco ha cambiado para las trabajadoras que prestan cuidados remunerados. Consideradas esenciales durante el confinamiento, las trabajadoras del hogar han sufrido un aumento de la jornada laboral, detenciones ilegales en los domicilios de sus empleadores, acoso y violencia. En la pospandemia, sus condiciones de vida y de trabajo siguen siendo precarias, y las…
Fighting Violence Against Women in the Brazilian Amazon: Protecting the Forest and the People Who Inhabit Her
This paper provides a reflection on decolonial and feminist struggles in the Brazilian Amazon. Less often categorized as a conflict-affected area, the Amazon is, nonetheless, faced with constant violence, from feminicide to deforestation, land invasions and attacks on Indigenous peoples. Based on the unique training experience "Advocacy in Gender, Race and Ethnicity," led by the Instituto Mulheres da Amazônia (Institute Women of the Amazon -, IMA…
Essentiel mais exclu: Le Covid‐19 et le déficit de travail décent parmi les travailleurs domestiques au Brésil
Cet article présente les données d'une enquête menée avec la Fédération nationale des travailleurs domestiques du Brésil sur l'impact de la pandémie de COVID‐19 sur les travailleurs domestiques, en tenant également compte des politiques d'urgence et des principales actions de la fédération au cours de la première année de la crise. Axé sur l'emploi et les revenus, la sécurité et la santé au travail et les violations des droits, il montre l'extrêm…
Caring is resisting: Lessons from domestic workers' mobilizations during Covid‐19 in Latin America
Domestic workers were one of the most negatively affected groups by COVID‐19 in Latin America, yet they have also been resisting and mobilizing in impressive and innovative ways. This article shows that domestic workers' organizations were able to adapt to an extremely adverse context in order to protect their members and defend their rights. Furthermore, their mobilizations provide an alternative vision of society grounded on love and solidarity…
Domestic Worker Organizing in Neo-Authoritarian Brazil
Brazil is a country marked by historically rooted social, political, and economic inequalities. These are linked primarily to the centuries-long legacy of slavery—over five million slaves were trafficked to Brazil from 1501 to 1866,1 over five times the number brought to the United States before 1865—and to the dependent form of capitalist development adopted by national elites. In 1888, Brazil was the last country to formally abolish slavery, al…
Practicing Intersectionality: Brazilian Domestic Workers’ Strategies of Building Alliances and Mobilizing Identity
Domestic workers, as essentially black women in highly precarious conditions, lacking social protection, and often not recognized as proper workers, are considered particularly hard, or even impossible, to organize compared to the “standard” male industrial worker. Yet they have been mobilizing for decades in several countries, including Brazil, where they won new labor rights in 2015. Through an ethnographic study of domestic workers’ unions in …
Right to health, right to live: Domestic workers facing the Covid-19 crisis in Latin America
This article presents the results from a survey on the impact of COVID-19 on domestic workers in 14 Latin American countries. The data reveal a massive employment and social crisis, with about half of respondents having been dismissed or suspended while they had no access to social protection. We further demonstrate the harms on the health and safety of domestic workers, with evidence of pre-existing health conditions making them more vulnerable,…
La construction d’une pratique politique intersectionnelle dans les luttes des travailleuses domestiques au Brésil
Cet article propose une analyse des luttes des travailleuses domestiques au Brésil, à partir de deux recherches de terrain. Nous considérons l’imbrication du racisme, du sexisme et de l’inégalité de classe dans leurs vies et luttes, et dans leur rapport avec les mouvements noir, féministe et les syndicats de travailleurs. Si cette imbrication des rapports sociaux produit des formes d’oppression multiples, elle est également un ressort pour les lu…
Becoming ambivalent subjects of labour rights: Subaltern Mobilisations, the Law and the State
This article engages with feminist debates on the possibilities and limitations of a politics of rights through a study of domestic workers' mobilisations in Brazil. Although rights are always ambivalent or limited, they are nonetheless necessary to subaltern groups and represent one of their main repertoires of contention. More specifically, I propose to look empirically at what rights do once they are won, and how a legislative victory affects …
Interview with Patricia Hill Collins
On October 29, 2019, a group of intellectuals met at the Sociology Department of usp, at the initiative of the Tempo Social editor, for an interview with Patricia Hill Collins, an internationally renowned American intellectual, who opened new perspectives for Black feminist thought, as a critical social theory. The departure point was Collins new book, entitled Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory, where she explores the parallels between …
Trabalho doméstico e de cuidado: Um Campo De Debate
O objetivo deste artigo é analisar como o Estado, o mercado e os movimentos políticos de trabalhadoras domésticas e cuidadoras têm concretizado estratégias para marcar as possíveis liminaridades e fronteiras entre essas duas ocupações. Para isso, analisamos a Lei Complementar no 150/2015, que amplia direitos trabalhistas às trabalhadoras domésticas, e o Projeto de Lei da Câmara 11/16, que propõe regulamentar a profissão de cuidadora. No âmbito do…
On The Frontline: Confronting Precariousness, Outsourcing and Exploitation – Lessons From The LSE Cleaners
« Le travail domestique est aussi une profession ! »: La lutte des travailleuses domestiques au Brésil pour l’égalité des droits
Cet article analyse la lutte des travailleuses domestiques au Brésil pour la reconnaissance sociale et politique de leur catégorie professionnelle. Du fait de leurs multiples oppressions et de leur caractérisation en tant que « non-travailleuses », les domestiques sont souvent perçues comme plus difficiles, voire impossibles, à organiser et à représenter. Pourtant, elles s’organisent depuis 1936 et ont formé leurs propres syndicats afin de revend…
Praticando a equidade: Estratégias De Efetivação De Direitos No Trabalho Doméstico
Formas de contestação das trabalhadoras domésticas contra a desvalorização do seu trabalho serão foco de análise do artigo, indo das negociações informais com os empregadores até a mobilização sindical. Demonstraremos que a luta principal dessas trabalhadoras gira em torno do reconhecimento e do valor do seu trabalho. Para tanto, as trabalhadoras propõem uma redefinição do conceito de trabalho, desafiando a dicotomia produtivo/improdutivo, buscan…
Decolonising Labour, Reclaiming Subaltern Epistemologies: Brazilian Domestic Workers and the International Struggle for Labour Rights
This study explores the labour rights discourse produced by Brazilian domestic workers. It shows that the 2015 Brazilian legislation which extended labour rights to domestic workers was not simply a 'boomerang effect' of ILO Convention 189 on decent work for domestic workers, or a case of the 'vernacularisation' of global rights. Indeed, domestic workers have agitated for equal labour rights since 1936, and articulated the specific rights contain…
Eu tinha minha liberdade: Entrevista de Nair Jane de Castro Lima, liderança histórica das trabalhadoras domésticas do Rio de Janeiro
Entrevista com a líder sindical e trabalhadora doméstica aposentada Nair Jane de Castro Lima, onde ela relata desde sua infância do Maranhão à Minas Gerais e, finalmente, Rio de Janeiro, trabalhando desde os 9 anos como babá, passando por sua participação na Associação Profissional de Empregadas Domésticas do RJ durante o período da ditadura militar, a criação de dois dos sindicatos da categoria na cidade, sua atuação junto a Juventude Operária C…
Decolonising Labour, Reclaiming Subaltern Epistemologies: Brazilian Domestic Workers and the International Struggle for Labour Rights
This study explores the labour rights discourse produced by Brazilian domestic workers. It shows that the 2015 Brazilian legislation which extended labour rights to domestic workers was not simply a 'boomerang effect' of ILO Convention 189 on decent work for domestic workers, or a case of the 'vernacularisation' of global rights. Indeed, domestic workers have agitated for equal labour rights since 1936, and articulated the specific rights contain…
Trabalho doméstico e de cuidado: Um Campo De Debate
O objetivo deste artigo é analisar como o Estado, o mercado e os movimentos políticos de trabalhadoras domésticas e cuidadoras têm concretizado estratégias para marcar as possíveis liminaridades e fronteiras entre essas duas ocupações. Para isso, analisamos a Lei Complementar no 150/2015, que amplia direitos trabalhistas às trabalhadoras domésticas, e o Projeto de Lei da Câmara 11/16, que propõe regulamentar a profissão de cuidadora. No âmbito do…
Caring is resisting: Lessons from domestic workers' mobilizations during Covid‐19 in Latin America
Domestic workers were one of the most negatively affected groups by COVID‐19 in Latin America, yet they have also been resisting and mobilizing in impressive and innovative ways. This article shows that domestic workers' organizations were able to adapt to an extremely adverse context in order to protect their members and defend their rights. Furthermore, their mobilizations provide an alternative vision of society grounded on love and solidarity…
Right to health, right to live: Domestic workers facing the Covid-19 crisis in Latin America
This article presents the results from a survey on the impact of COVID-19 on domestic workers in 14 Latin American countries. The data reveal a massive employment and social crisis, with about half of respondents having been dismissed or suspended while they had no access to social protection. We further demonstrate the harms on the health and safety of domestic workers, with evidence of pre-existing health conditions making them more vulnerable,…
Interview with Patricia Hill Collins
On October 29, 2019, a group of intellectuals met at the Sociology Department of usp, at the initiative of the Tempo Social editor, for an interview with Patricia Hill Collins, an internationally renowned American intellectual, who opened new perspectives for Black feminist thought, as a critical social theory. The departure point was Collins new book, entitled Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory, where she explores the parallels between …
Domestic Worker Organizing in Neo-Authoritarian Brazil
Brazil is a country marked by historically rooted social, political, and economic inequalities. These are linked primarily to the centuries-long legacy of slavery—over five million slaves were trafficked to Brazil from 1501 to 1866,1 over five times the number brought to the United States before 1865—and to the dependent form of capitalist development adopted by national elites. In 1888, Brazil was the last country to formally abolish slavery, al…
La construction d’une pratique politique intersectionnelle dans les luttes des travailleuses domestiques au Brésil
Cet article propose une analyse des luttes des travailleuses domestiques au Brésil, à partir de deux recherches de terrain. Nous considérons l’imbrication du racisme, du sexisme et de l’inégalité de classe dans leurs vies et luttes, et dans leur rapport avec les mouvements noir, féministe et les syndicats de travailleurs. Si cette imbrication des rapports sociaux produit des formes d’oppression multiples, elle est également un ressort pour les lu…
Praticando a equidade: Estratégias De Efetivação De Direitos No Trabalho Doméstico
Formas de contestação das trabalhadoras domésticas contra a desvalorização do seu trabalho serão foco de análise do artigo, indo das negociações informais com os empregadores até a mobilização sindical. Demonstraremos que a luta principal dessas trabalhadoras gira em torno do reconhecimento e do valor do seu trabalho. Para tanto, as trabalhadoras propõem uma redefinição do conceito de trabalho, desafiando a dicotomia produtivo/improdutivo, buscan…
Eu tinha minha liberdade: Entrevista de Nair Jane de Castro Lima, liderança histórica das trabalhadoras domésticas do Rio de Janeiro
Entrevista com a líder sindical e trabalhadora doméstica aposentada Nair Jane de Castro Lima, onde ela relata desde sua infância do Maranhão à Minas Gerais e, finalmente, Rio de Janeiro, trabalhando desde os 9 anos como babá, passando por sua participação na Associação Profissional de Empregadas Domésticas do RJ durante o período da ditadura militar, a criação de dois dos sindicatos da categoria na cidade, sua atuação junto a Juventude Operária C…
Decolonising Labour, Reclaiming Subaltern Epistemologies: Brazilian Domestic Workers and the International Struggle for Labour Rights
This study explores the labour rights discourse produced by Brazilian domestic workers. It shows that the 2015 Brazilian legislation which extended labour rights to domestic workers was not simply a 'boomerang effect' of ILO Convention 189 on decent work for domestic workers, or a case of the 'vernacularisation' of global rights. Indeed, domestic workers have agitated for equal labour rights since 1936, and articulated the specific rights contain…
Eu tinha minha liberdade: Entrevista de Nair Jane de Castro Lima, liderança histórica das trabalhadoras domésticas do Rio de Janeiro
Entrevista com a líder sindical e trabalhadora doméstica aposentada Nair Jane de Castro Lima, onde ela relata desde sua infância do Maranhão à Minas Gerais e, finalmente, Rio de Janeiro, trabalhando desde os 9 anos como babá, passando por sua participação na Associação Profissional de Empregadas Domésticas do RJ durante o período da ditadura militar, a criação de dois dos sindicatos da categoria na cidade, sua atuação junto a Juventude Operária C…
On The Frontline: Confronting Precariousness, Outsourcing and Exploitation – Lessons From The LSE Cleaners
« Le travail domestique est aussi une profession ! »: La lutte des travailleuses domestiques au Brésil pour l’égalité des droits
Cet article analyse la lutte des travailleuses domestiques au Brésil pour la reconnaissance sociale et politique de leur catégorie professionnelle. Du fait de leurs multiples oppressions et de leur caractérisation en tant que « non-travailleuses », les domestiques sont souvent perçues comme plus difficiles, voire impossibles, à organiser et à représenter. Pourtant, elles s’organisent depuis 1936 et ont formé leurs propres syndicats afin de revend…
Praticando a equidade: Estratégias De Efetivação De Direitos No Trabalho Doméstico
Formas de contestação das trabalhadoras domésticas contra a desvalorização do seu trabalho serão foco de análise do artigo, indo das negociações informais com os empregadores até a mobilização sindical. Demonstraremos que a luta principal dessas trabalhadoras gira em torno do reconhecimento e do valor do seu trabalho. Para tanto, as trabalhadoras propõem uma redefinição do conceito de trabalho, desafiando a dicotomia produtivo/improdutivo, buscan…
Practicing Intersectionality: Brazilian Domestic Workers’ Strategies of Building Alliances and Mobilizing Identity
Domestic workers, as essentially black women in highly precarious conditions, lacking social protection, and often not recognized as proper workers, are considered particularly hard, or even impossible, to organize compared to the “standard” male industrial worker. Yet they have been mobilizing for decades in several countries, including Brazil, where they won new labor rights in 2015. Through an ethnographic study of domestic workers’ unions in …
Right to health, right to live: Domestic workers facing the Covid-19 crisis in Latin America
This article presents the results from a survey on the impact of COVID-19 on domestic workers in 14 Latin American countries. The data reveal a massive employment and social crisis, with about half of respondents having been dismissed or suspended while they had no access to social protection. We further demonstrate the harms on the health and safety of domestic workers, with evidence of pre-existing health conditions making them more vulnerable,…
La construction d’une pratique politique intersectionnelle dans les luttes des travailleuses domestiques au Brésil
Cet article propose une analyse des luttes des travailleuses domestiques au Brésil, à partir de deux recherches de terrain. Nous considérons l’imbrication du racisme, du sexisme et de l’inégalité de classe dans leurs vies et luttes, et dans leur rapport avec les mouvements noir, féministe et les syndicats de travailleurs. Si cette imbrication des rapports sociaux produit des formes d’oppression multiples, elle est également un ressort pour les lu…
Becoming ambivalent subjects of labour rights: Subaltern Mobilisations, the Law and the State
This article engages with feminist debates on the possibilities and limitations of a politics of rights through a study of domestic workers' mobilisations in Brazil. Although rights are always ambivalent or limited, they are nonetheless necessary to subaltern groups and represent one of their main repertoires of contention. More specifically, I propose to look empirically at what rights do once they are won, and how a legislative victory affects …
Interview with Patricia Hill Collins
On October 29, 2019, a group of intellectuals met at the Sociology Department of usp, at the initiative of the Tempo Social editor, for an interview with Patricia Hill Collins, an internationally renowned American intellectual, who opened new perspectives for Black feminist thought, as a critical social theory. The departure point was Collins new book, entitled Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory, where she explores the parallels between …
Trabalho doméstico e de cuidado: Um Campo De Debate
O objetivo deste artigo é analisar como o Estado, o mercado e os movimentos políticos de trabalhadoras domésticas e cuidadoras têm concretizado estratégias para marcar as possíveis liminaridades e fronteiras entre essas duas ocupações. Para isso, analisamos a Lei Complementar no 150/2015, que amplia direitos trabalhistas às trabalhadoras domésticas, e o Projeto de Lei da Câmara 11/16, que propõe regulamentar a profissão de cuidadora. No âmbito do…
Domestic Worker Organizing in Neo-Authoritarian Brazil
Brazil is a country marked by historically rooted social, political, and economic inequalities. These are linked primarily to the centuries-long legacy of slavery—over five million slaves were trafficked to Brazil from 1501 to 1866,1 over five times the number brought to the United States before 1865—and to the dependent form of capitalist development adopted by national elites. In 1888, Brazil was the last country to formally abolish slavery, al…
Caring is resisting: Lessons from domestic workers' mobilizations during Covid‐19 in Latin America
Domestic workers were one of the most negatively affected groups by COVID‐19 in Latin America, yet they have also been resisting and mobilizing in impressive and innovative ways. This article shows that domestic workers' organizations were able to adapt to an extremely adverse context in order to protect their members and defend their rights. Furthermore, their mobilizations provide an alternative vision of society grounded on love and solidarity…
Essentiel mais exclu: Le Covid‐19 et le déficit de travail décent parmi les travailleurs domestiques au Brésil
Cet article présente les données d'une enquête menée avec la Fédération nationale des travailleurs domestiques du Brésil sur l'impact de la pandémie de COVID‐19 sur les travailleurs domestiques, en tenant également compte des politiques d'urgence et des principales actions de la fédération au cours de la première année de la crise. Axé sur l'emploi et les revenus, la sécurité et la santé au travail et les violations des droits, il montre l'extrêm…
Beyond Vulnerabilities. Gendered Forms of Resistance During the Pandemic Crisis
This paper proposes to explore social relations of gender and care during the Covid-19 crisis in Latin America. Based on empirical examples of actions led by domestic workers in Brazil and the Dominican Republic, I argue that gender can be a resource for collective action. Gender is usually understood as a factor of inequality in disaster contexts, rendering women more ‘vulnerable’. During the Covid-19 pandemic, women were hit harder by unemploym…
Da crise do cuidado ao cuidado como exploração: Quem se importa com as trabalhadoras domésticas
Si bien la pandemia ha reavivado el debate sobre la «crisis del cuidado», en la práctica, poco ha cambiado para las trabajadoras que prestan cuidados remunerados. Consideradas esenciales durante el confinamiento, las trabajadoras del hogar han sufrido un aumento de la jornada laboral, detenciones ilegales en los domicilios de sus empleadores, acoso y violencia. En la pospandemia, sus condiciones de vida y de trabajo siguen siendo precarias, y las…
Fighting Violence Against Women in the Brazilian Amazon: Protecting the Forest and the People Who Inhabit Her
This paper provides a reflection on decolonial and feminist struggles in the Brazilian Amazon. Less often categorized as a conflict-affected area, the Amazon is, nonetheless, faced with constant violence, from feminicide to deforestation, land invasions and attacks on Indigenous peoples. Based on the unique training experience "Advocacy in Gender, Race and Ethnicity," led by the Instituto Mulheres da Amazônia (Institute Women of the Amazon -, IMA…
Political science (15 works) · Digital Economy and Work Transformation (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (6 works) · Humanities (5 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (4 works) · International Labor and Employment Law (4 works) · Sex work and related issues (4 works) · Ethnography (3 works)