The global economy and its fast processes of changing and the productive reestructuration turned gender relations at work. The increasing entrance of female contingent at labour market, besides the visibility that engenders at private sphere, shows a set of new women experiences at market and in society. In the latest few years, the flexible dynamic productive process has brougt on a significative growing of informal work, in a process caractherized by its heterogeneity and also by its sistemic interaction between formal and informal sector. The aim of this paper is to analyse the domestic labour developed by women for ready-made article clothing in a city of medium size at Minas Gerais. The weakness of labour regulation and social rights made possible the multiplication of these precarized activities that creates flexible labour contracts, labour conditions, day's journey and an extension/interaction between private/domestic space and productive/economic space.
gender relations; productive reorganization; flexibility; precarization