Women-Mothers-Waste Collectors: Maternity and Urban Solid Waste Collection in the city of Caxias do Sul, RS

Abstract

Abstract This article aims to understand how motherhood is expressed in women collectors of solid waste from recycling associations in Caxias do Sul, RS, through seven interviews with collectors and the respective field diaries produced by the researchers. Discursive textual analysis was used as a methodological path. Motherhood was identified as precarious due to the women’s social conditions, in which they experience the absence of labour rights during pregnancy and are forced to raise their children in recycling warehouses, due to the difficulty of accessing public policies.