Workers of Antônio José Maia & Cia.'s hat steam factory: gender, age, professional qualification and nationality. Recife, 1880s

• Autor(a) principal: Mac Cord, Marcelo
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Mundos do Trabalho
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/mundosdotrabalho/article/view/1984-9222.2020.e69916

Officially opened in mid-1882, Antonio José Maia & Cia.'s steam factory hadPortuguese owners. They were required by law to hire a quota of national apprentices andsecure their livelihoods. At the heart of this demand was the problem of the “transition” fromslavery to free labour and the historical conflicts between natives and foreigners in the labourmarket. At the beginning of the operation of the factory work, most of the specialized workforcewas Portuguese. Pernambucans men and women of various ages were generally assignedthe most simple and provisional services. Between 1882 and 1886, the Portuguese weregradually replaced by nationals, trained at the very hat steam factory, thus making productioncosts cheaper. In that same period of time, boys, girls, teenagers and adult women, allBrazilians and hired as apprentices, were the ones who suffered the most from precariousnessand the high turnover in the headgear workshops. Our article analyses the complexities of theobject of study through the instruments of social history of labour.