The black workers in 3x4: photography, work history and post-abolition. Pelotas-RS, 1933-1944

• Autor(a) principal: Lopes, Aristeu Elisandro Machado
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Mundos do Trabalho
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/mundosdotrabalho/article/view/1984-9222.2019.e66906

The purpose of this article is to analyze a set of information and the 3x4 photographs of Black workers who applied for the professional portfolio in the city of Pelotas/RS, between 1933 and 1944. Considering that the city was characterized in the nineteenth century by the economic rise from the exploitation of slave labor, the proposal will also develop, addressing questions about the presence of the black population based on available demographic data. However, the main objective will be the analysis of the information from the acquis of the Regional Labor Office of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, consisting of a form that recorded the worker data, fingerprints, and a 3x4 photograph. The photography of black workers is considered an important visual record of the black population of the city, since practically nothing was preserved about the history of these men and women in the early decades of the twentieth century.