Want to play hide and seek with a domestic and care worker? The game won't end until you see her and, in this way, she can come out of the hiding place she is in.
María, Mariama, Mary Olga, Nhora, Edith, Luz Carmen, Claudia, Melva, Ángela, Anielka, Gladis and Clara are women who have dedicated themselves for years to housework and care work in the city of Bilbao, but you may never have come across them on the street.
It is said that care work - although invisible because it takes place in private spaces - is what sustains life. The life of the employing families, of course.
The Spanish legal system allows demanding working days of 60 hours a week for care workers, with a labor agreement without rights such as unemployment benefits, retirement or maternity leave. In addition, the invisibility that characterizes the domestic environment allows to cover up situations of exploitation that in some cases could be defined as a new form of contemporary slavery.
With this project we intend to bring to the public arena the situation of abuse and legal helplessness that applies to domestic and care workers in Spain.
