Factory Women Workers: Household life and quality of life

Abstract

Working quality of life must involve a set of factors such as safeness, comfort, leisure, employment and wage project, functional ascension possibilities, satisfaction, besides individual development and qualification guarantees. This study aimed at approaching the factory women workers’ quality of life in the threshold of everyday life and work. It was an ethnographic research with the follow-up of ten women workers from a shoe factory in Sobral – Ce, primarily identified in a public health service. Data were gathered by means of participative observations registered in a field diary and a semi-structured interview route, both accomplished during the domiciliary visits. Although submitted to tiring conditions, depriving themselves of time for dedicating to them or their families, it was verified that those women affirm liking their job at the factory. They consider being well paid, appraised, helpful and beneficiated by it, feelings that they do not find in the household work. The last considered to be an obligation, an invisible work that no one values and that does not bring rewards. It is concluded that these factors interfere in those women’s quality of life.