Pluralismo normativo e relações laborais na época moderna: para uma compreensão a partir da noção extensa de família

Abstract

The dissertation aims to present notions about family, law and work, inside the legal, theological and economical literature from the Ancient Regime, in order to draft a profile with the elements and characteristics of family as a labor relations normative order. The research is divided into three chapters. The first will be devoted to methodological matters of Law History, involving the discussion between a traditional historiography and a critical one, in the desire of knowing in what measure they interfere in the comprehension of the Ancient Regime labor relations regulation. After this approach, in the second chapter, the main characteristics of a family will be presented as a normative order located in a context of pluralism of normative orders, showing even the possible latitudes and longitudes that a family order could achieve. Lastly, the third chapter will try to stablish doctrinaire, legal, moral and economical normative frameworks, used by the domestic administration, oriented to the paterfamilias figure, concerning the other domestic components in a wide comprehension: wife, children, servants and slaves.