A mulher trabalhadora em Santa Maria durante o Estado Novo (1937-1945)

Abstract

This work was developed during course of graduate in history at the Federal University of Santa, as a requirement for obtaining a master's degree in history. The work is Inserted in the Research Line in Migration and Labor, and counted with the Financial Support of the Coordination of Higher Education Personnel Improvement (CAPES ). This research aimed to identify and analyze the forms of action , claim and social struggle used by women workers from Santa Maria to secure their labor rights during the period known as the "Estado Novo" . The choice of the Estado Novo in Brazil was due to this being a period where many achievements of workers were being object of specific legislation and , at the same time, a moment of political repression with a strong and repressive police apparatus, with the strengthening of unions under the protection of the state and the struggle of workers to guarantee these rights historically achieved. The women, for centuries, have passed unnoticed by the history, repressed in a patriarchal and authoritarian society where most authors inserts the men on the main stage of the struggles for labor rights. In this sense, this research sought to give voice to these women, using as the main source an important tool for the fight for labor rights: the labor processes of the Acquis of Justice of Labor in Santa Maria.