Demandas de mulheres junto à Justiça do Trabalho : a memória do trabalho como presente do passado (Curitiba - 1960/1975)

Abstract

The object of this research are the working women in the city of Curitiba who acted in secondary and tertiary sector in time patch comprehended between 1960 and 1975. We tracked down fragments of these Curitiba women daily work; their gender reIations of domination and exploitation through working rights actions deflagrated by these working women. Inside the context of Paraná?s accelerated industrialization and urbanization, are contained new behavior and attitude patterns among working class both about money and about the life perspectives which they were promised by ever changing working rights contents. Our main sources, a documental mass mnstituted by work rights processes of Tribunal Regional do Trabalho de Curitiba (9th Regian) , a Work Court, are deposited at CPDP, an organ of Departamento de História (History Department) at Universidade Estadual de Maringá (UEM). From the midst of these files, has been selected the ones in which had figurate gender and power relations which evidenciate daily working conditions. We have approached Brazilian and Paraná?s historical context between 1960 and 1975 aiming to understand the working conditions faced by lower class people, especially women, and even work aspects attached to industrialization development. Understand urban female work related questions in Curitiba, analyze the representations pertaining to female occupations set by employers, by judicial apparatus and those contained on Work Rights, as well as the changes of rules and regulations to protect female work are some of proposed objectives of the present study. We unveil the gender relations and specificities of women stories who had taken their former employers to the Courts of Law, denunciating their exploitation through money set ups to disqualify their work and their rights. We were focused on social and political actors, their confrontations and identifications between themselves, as an opportunity to build a historical knowledge of these struggles activating local knowings against centralizing power effects related to the institution of a sole speech. The social daily practicings reveals us cracklings in these speeches, numerous unsubmissions, inversions, improvisations and struggles by these means obtained. The analysis of work rights actions reveals us how these women were attempted to fit in a docile and disciplined female working pattern, how they were punished and allegedly fired by righteous causes, and yet shows us confrontation strategies by these women legitimated.