Mulheres por trás dos trilhos: história e oralidade sobre educação, trabalho e política nas famílias ferroviárias do RS

Abstract

The women for a long time were seen as "beings" accessory, secondary and inferior in the Brazilian labor middle and in the society as a completely. This dissertation intends to demonstrate that in the rail labor middle of Rio Grande do Sul they obtained a space and a significant visibility in the social spectrum. This that has for study object to search the possible political and religious influences on the families in the middle labor railway man of Rio Grande do Sul work, as in a private way they were the Positivism, Trabalhism and the Catholic theology, with respect to the focused women's in a special way social existences in their daily of work and education. For the attainment of the dissertation, we propose that the methodology includes contributions of the oral history, because until very little time the women's history was ignored by the historians and social analysts, partly because her life, linked to the home or the disorganized work or temporary, very frequently it elapsed without being documented. Therefore, the use of interviews with the collaborators, that is, wives and railway man daughters are indispensable so that she can point roads of the present researches. Of the same form, the use of distinguished bibliographies and significant empiric documents for the treatment of the object, being considered the authors' references that studied the history of the railroad and, other, the women's history. Their lives and participation in the society are marked by progresses and retreats. In spite of the education also provided to act as a type of maintenance of the order in the domestic space, through her it was possible the exit for the world of the work. A lot of transformations were made possible by the impact of the education. In spite of the silence or of the invisibility always to weigh more strongly on the women, in reason of the inequality of the sexes, she is not able to say that they didn't act. Being, then, important that research can contribute to the women's history in the rail world. Finally, the history continues the if to do and the women continue the if release/emancipate.