Pobreza e assistência pública e privada em Minas Gerais (1871-1923)

Abstract

The research starts from the impacts brought by the Free Womb Law, 1871, and runs until 1923. This cut is due to the implications brought by two crucial moments for assistance: the gradual abolition of slavery and the creation of the first boxes retirement and pensions, through Law Eloi Chaves dating from 1923. In addition, it is also the 1923 circular of the then Secretary of the Interior, Fernando de Mello Vianna, which brings attached a questionnaire to all state care institutions Minas Gerais, in order to gather detailed information about the care services provided. The thesis was divided into three chapters that seek to analyze how was the distribution of assistance in Minas Gerais, to what extent was the participation of society, as the state of Minas positioned in relation to social issues, which are the most relevant actors and, yet, as combined public and private initiatives for the consolidation of the public assistance field in the state. In Minas Gerais public assistance was from 1889 until 1923 a featured and public sectors, allocated to the Secretary of the Interior, but born and maintained by society, through donations of all kinds combined with a system of subsidies that even today continues to assist numerous hospitals and poverty to help associations. This is how we can understand the genesis of what is currently the Social Security in the state of Minas Gerais as a hybrid derived from charity and philanthropy combined initiatives of the state and federal governments.