[ID 55717] COSTUREIRAS NO TERRITÓRIO DA ATENÇÃO PRIMÁRIA À SAÚDE: TRABALHO EM DOMICÍLIO E VULNERABILIDADES

SEAMSTRESSES IN THE TERRITORY OF PRIMARY HEALTH CARE: HOME-BASED WORK AND VULNERABILITIES

Abstract

Introduction: This study explores the configuration of home work of seamstresses, their life and work trajectories and implications for health care in the area covered by a Family Health Unit, in the city of Salvador-Ba. Method: a socio-anthropological approach, an exploratory and analytical study, which examined: a) the trajectories of women to become seamstresses; b) the conditions of home work and its repercussions in the family context and; c) the interactions of these user-workers with the FHU, in an urban territory of the FHS. The field diary recorded on the elements that marked the presence of the seamstresses' work at home, through systematic and direct observation of home work and dialogical reconstruction on the work of sewing at home. Result: The seamstresses have their own home, they are black women, with low education and professional qualification, who maintain the livelihood of their homes, children and grandchildren with different functions in the areas of production and social reproduction. Work trajectories reaffirm the denial of labor and social security rights and the worsening of health and quality of life. Conclusion: Home work exposed vulnerabilities of seamstresses in this informal work, reduced access to PHC services and the invisibility, to health professionals, of home work in the territory covered by an FHU in an urban area.