Mulheres negras, trabalhadoras, "viventes": recontando histórias de trabalho no Brasil sob a perspectiva do gênero e da raça

Abstract

This dissertation aims to revisit the History of Labor Law in Brazil from the perspective of black women. Along the way, the legal exclusion of black female workers and the efforts of the ruling classes to keep them as subordinates in society through the use of intersectional of oppression are evident. Starting from the idea that black women are resisting, combining knowledge and transmitting the knowledge acquired in the daily life of resistance, we seek to give visibility to their work trajectories in different historical moments and, in particular, to map the survival strategies used by them to survive oppression. At the same time, the history of Labor in Brazil told in traditional books is presented, demonstrating, on one hand, that the official history does not include the perspective of gender and race, and, on the other, that black women are working, resisting and producing knowledge from their own experiences for years. They are building their own science.