2017-02-132017-02-132016-12-12http://hdl.handle.net/123456730/297The current research has as its main axis the analysis of how the fight for the female domestic workers’ recognition, in the field of labor law, showcases the institutional racism of the Brazilian State through an incomplete inclusion. To do so, at first we discussed the historical development of domestic labor in the country, from the fundamentals of the Brazilian society, confluence of race, class and gender in its formation; and from the consolidated theoretical debate, aiming to notice its current state of social exclusion. Then, we focused on the constitution of the work relations in Brazil and the role that the State assumed towards the insertion of the country in the capitalist system and for the formation of free labor as a wide and concrete reality. The goal was to understand how the theme of citizenship comes up in the Brazilian society as well as its effects for the working class and, more precisely, for the female domestic workers. Thus, the theories of recognition, from Charles Taylor, Axel Honneth and Nancy Fraser emerge as a consistent theoretical framework to understand, on the one hand, how the historical iniquities that strike the dynamics of domestic labor relations are structured. On the other hand, they help us understand how to face their dilemmas for the symbolic and material deconstruction of such reality. Those theories articulate socioeconomic iniquities and cultural values that reproduce and legitimize the recognition that is denied for the female domestic workers – which is the reason why the debate about institutional racism is necessary. Lastly, we connected the changes in the sociojuridical insertion of the female domestic workers with their agenda of union representation, aiming to show how such agenda moves through the binomial redistribution-recognition. The incomplete inclusion of those workers is a construction whose regulatory framework lies in the Brazilian State.Acesso AbertoTrabalhadoras domésticasFemale domestic workersEstado brasileiroBrazilian stateDireitos trabalhistasLabor rightsRacismo institucionalInstitutional racismTeoria do reconhecimentoTheory of recognitionDissertaçãoSociais e HumanidadesMultidisciplinar