A quarta onda feminista e sua influência na participação política das trabalhadoras da escala 6x1

Abstract

This dissertation investigates the relationship between the so-called fourth wave of feminism and the forms of political participation of women workers subjected to the 6x1 work schedule, seeking to understand how recent transformations in contemporary feminism affect their experiences as women in the world of work and in political activity. The study is justified by the need to articulate feminist debates with the sphere of labor, overcoming fragmented approaches that separate gender, race, and class, as well as by the relevance of the theme in the context of intensified labor precarization in Brazil’s service sector. The research is guided by the assumption that, although the fourth wave of feminism influences the political formation of these workers, such influence occurs in uneven and contradictory ways, mediated by material living conditions and by the historical determinations of capitalist social relations. Theoretically, the study is grounded in Marxist feminism, with emphasis on Social Reproduction Theory, which understands women’s oppression as a structural dimension of capitalism, articulated with labor exploitation and the reproduction of social life. Methodologically, the research adopts a historical-dialectical materialist approach and a qualitative design, based on individual semi-structured interviews with five women who work or have worked under the 6x1 schedule and maintain links with feminist collectives or movements. The findings indicate that the 6x1 work schedule functions as a concrete mediation of intensified exploitation, physical and mental exhaustion, and restrictions on political participation, while simultaneously fostering, in a contradictory manner, processes of collective organization and resistance, in which feminism emerges as a relevant, though not homogeneous, reference in the constitution of these women as political subjects