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Domestic work, a labour market that is overwhelmingly composed of Black women in Brazil, has been rendered invisible within labour activism in São Paulo. In this article, the author explores how the myth of the São Paulo industrial labourer being a male European immigrant acts as a significant barrier to the recognition of domestic workers' unions as legitimate labour movements. The myth manages to hide the many Black women domestic workers who keep the city functioning at the intersection of racial capitalism and sexism. Drawing on interviews conducted with members of the Union of Domestic Workers of São Paulo (STDMSP) in 2013, the author finds that union members, participants and leaders shape their own liberatory analytical framework around their marginalisation, which pushes back against Eurocentric ideas of labour.

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