The exploitation and oppression of women in the informal labor market in Brazil,
Brazilian job market; informality; precariousness of work; female work.
The present work, entitled the exploitation and oppression of women in the informal labor market in Brazil, is the result of qualitative and quantitative research in the light of critical thinking, based on Marxist feminist theory that leads to the theoretical hypothesis that overcoming the order of capital It implies, among other aspects, the recognition of women's productive work and overcoming the asymmetric division of work between the sexes in the public and private spheres. Thus, its main objective is to promote a critical understanding of women's informal work in the context of contemporary structural crisis and its functionality for maintaining the capitalist mode of production. The importance of the study revolves around the understanding that informal work is functional to the capitalist mode of production and that the incidence of informality has been one of the structural and historical characteristics of the Brazilian labor market, especially in the lives of female workers who are inserted within the sexual and racial division of labor. Since, in the patriarchal capitalist structure, gender discrimination is based on stereotypes resulting from a racist, heterosexist and sexist society, which naturalizes oppression and affects mostly women, having as its framework the racial division of labor, which is revealed by discrimination and differentiated exploitation that the black population suffers in the world of work.