Memórias que não se apagam: o cotidiano de lutas das operárias na Manchester Mineira (1890-1954)

Abstract

Juiz de Fora came up in the beginning of twentieth century as a more important industrial center of the Minas Gerais state. However, between 1930 and 1960 decades it faced economic stagnation periods always bringing in its identity the city worker stain. In the abundant city factories, the majority workman was constituted by women. So, this research brings an analyse about the insertion the female manpower in the work market between 1890 and 1954 years, principally concerning about power games that ended in the maximum plundering in its work force and sexual crimes that happened in some Juiz de Fora factories. To tell the story about these women, yet forgotten by the traditional historiography speech, several resources were colected like workers processes, sindical documents, papers, criminal processes, the 1890 and 1940 law codes and interviews with seven ex-workers in some of these Juiz de Fora factories. The documental analyse has brought some important traces about the kind of exploration and violence carried out against these female workers, showing that a lot of them didn’t stop talking and didn’t want to take over the silence behaviour.