Ch.2: The Aesthetics of Domination

1. The Struggle of Earning a Living a Wage: Gloria

1.1. Worked 14 hours a day, plus two hours to travel there and back.

1.2. Advantage: payment made on a daily basis; received help from clients at times when in need.

1.3. Having a domestic worker is seemed necessary to middle class, and a class marker

2. Poverty in Braizl and Rio De Janeiro

2.1. Rio's economy has been declining for many years

2.2. Rio as the city of extremes, and became poorer in absolute terms relative to Sao Paulo

2.3. Increasing feminization of its workplace and the growing participation of children in the economy.

3. Class, Culture and Effects

3.1. Middle class defined as the ability to pay somebody else do manual labor

3.2. Feeling inferior to due to job, very bottom of a series of interlocking economic and social hierarchies

3.3. Gloria's situation captures an essential aspect of Brazilian class relations

4. Lives of Domestic Workers

4.1. One of the lowest paying jobs available and filled by Afro-Brazilian women

4.2. Other jobs discriminated them, "good appearance" they didn't fit that mold

5. Rio De Janiero