“São quase todos pretos”: cotidiano e experiência da classe de trabalhadora em Maceió pós abolição

Abstract

For decades, researchers have pointed to several criticisms of the "traditional narratives" on the History of Labor in Brazil. For a long time, it was insisted on describing among the lines of the post-abolition period that labor in Brazil was mostly "masculine, white and European." Contrary to tradition, it was, and still is, necessary to question the silences and invisibilities contained in the history of the country. Since the end of the 1970s, as a result of the consolidation of the Social History of Labor as a relevant field for dialogue, diverse and conflicting debates about the presence of black, indigenous, and women's populations have been "awakened" of Work in Brazil. Allied to this perspective, research and analysis of related documentation (newspapers, literature, official documents, state government reports, and others) made it possible to map the sources and construction of historical writing that evidence the experience of workers who spent their time labor force in the post-abolition Alagoan context.