MUNDO DO TRABALHO: Escravos, forros e livres pobres nos serviços domésticos, em São Luís, em fins do século XIX

Abstract

This study addresses the world of labor of slaves, forros and free poor, in the services domestic of São Luís between 1870 and 1910. Investigates the qualification and presentation of organization of domestic services in São Luís, at the end of the 19th century, involving the. children, adults and elderly inserted in the world of work responding to the why of hiring these subjects in these age groups. Another issue addressed is the. gender differences in hiring within domestic services; the locations and the roles that the contractors gave preference to men and women; life cycles. of women: pregnancy, motherhood, breastfeeding, the slave family after approval. of the law of 1871. As well, it addressed the practices of resistance developed by workers enslaved to the exploitation of their labor force. Among them, it is emphasized the realization of external services with the meet with other enslaved workers, poor and free to make their feasts and or plan and execute escapes; others disobeyed their másters leading them to resort to the Police Headquarters to punish them. others still executed the services in slow mode to displease the bosses.