Representativeness and intersectional inequalities. An analysis of the legislative debate of the Special Regime of Work Contract for the Personnel of Private Houses. Argentina, 2013

Abstract

This article proposes an approach to the symbolic aspects of the normative transformation in the labor relations of the domestic service, through an analysis of the legislative debate preceding the Special Regime for Personnel of Private Houses (law 26844). The hypothesis of an incomplete representation is proposed, given by the majority identification of the legislators with the role of employers, identified through their own self-declaration as well as the manifest empathy with said subject Without ignoring the advances implied by the sanction of the aforementioned Law in terms of recognition of rights, the debate expresses the Regime to sanction as a right that is granted and not as one that is conquered. This put the workers in a place of scarce political agency, reinforced by the absence of representatives among the legislators. We will observe the discursive framework that sustains the inequalities between employers and employees, and the particularities recognized to employers, to the detriment of the rights of the workers and with an indirect socialization of the cost of hiring.