Outros trabalhadores : experiências e cotidiano de trabalho de homens e mulheres no Recife (1890-1915)

Abstract

This research aims to investigate the daily lives of men and women of the working class city of Recife (1890-1915), at a time when concern about female honor, family preservation, the polarization of home space versus the street, and the value of free labor relate to the subject of national progress and the modernization of cities. Thus, taking into account the number of women than men, the vast number of existing widows in the state of Pernambuco, a considerable portion of domestic workers and the high illiteracy rate during the early years of the Republic, will seek to study the female experiences and men of the working class in their daily lives, in their conflicts arising from the precarious material, gender relations, class and color. Through a documentary corpus of criminal proceedings and journals, we propose to analyze small fragments of life of these subjects, they shared the same material reality and a chain of relationships involving standards of morality and honesty defined by gender cleavages, class and color. Investigate how men and women in pursuit of their livelihood and their peers, building their relations of solidarity and cronyism ties, touting identities, resisting and negotiating to / with publicized standards of morality.