Female paid domestic work in Lima: A contemporary case study on informality and changed forms of employment

Contents 1 Introduction 1.1 Paid domestic work: modalities of employments 1.2 Objective and research questions 1.3 The value of women’s lived experiences: making difference 1.4 Structure of the study 2 Literary review and previous research 2.1 Exploitation, exclusion and informality 2.1.1 Live-inside maids in the 1970s 2.1.2 DESCO’s report 1976 2.1.3 de Soto’s informal public sectors in the 1970s 2.2 Devaluation and (re)production and subjectification 2.2.1 Devaluation and discrimination: gender, ethnicity and class 2.2.2 Subjectification, objectification and (re)production 2.2.3 Differentiation or social equalization 3 Theoretical and conceptual framework 3.1 The value of paid domestic work 3.2 Informality, autonomy, and occupational independence 3.3 Economic inequality: social and cultural differences 4 Methodology 4.1 The case/s, a mixed methodology: difficulties, limits and benefits 4.1 Sources and material: evidence-based experience, statistics and theory 5 Analyze, theory-building and, discussion 5.1 Contextualization, statistics, and legislation 5.2 Lima in the 1970s 5.2.1 Hopes, dreams, and possibilities 5.2.2 Cultural differences: a sense of urban alienation 5.2.3 Shattered hopes and mental disappointments 5.2.4 Industrial work and domestic work in the 20th C. 5.2.5 Adjustments of the two modalities of employment: live-inside and live-outside 5.3 Lima in the 2010s 5.3.1 Work as maid from outside in the big city 5.3.2 A real case: an independent worker living in a public sector 5.3.3 Working conditions, demands, and female empowerment 5.3.4 Legislation and trade unions 5.3.5 Adjustments of the two modalities of employment: the independent worker 5.4 Lima towards the 2020s 5.4.1 Devaluation and discrimination: the women domestic worker in the urban workforce 5.4.2 The female urban domestic worker in third decade of the 21st C. 5.4.3 Informality and legislation: preferences and facts 5.4.4 Law No. 31047 5.4.5 Situation report: feminist care economy in practice and the part-time employment 6. Results and conclusions 6.1 Results 6.2 Conclusions BIBLIOGRAPHY APPENDIX