Temos ainda muito que lutar: presença, reivindicações e demandas das mulheres trabalhadoras nas páginas da imprensa da cidade do Rio de Janeiro (1889 – 1919)

Abstract

The central objective of this work is to investigate, through the pages of the mass circulation press in the city of Rio de Janeiro, between the years 1889 and 1919, the presence, demands and claims of working women. The aim is to analyze how men and women who make up the two worlds of work use printed matter as a means of disseminating guidelines such as female emancipation, equal pay and the intellectual training of the working class. In this way, the press presents itself as a privileged source for the development of this research, not only because, at that moment, prints were experiencing a moment of proficient development in the Federal Capital, but also because of the fact that these days will be presented as spaces disseminating ideas and debates around the working conditions of men and women belonging to popular groups, as spaces for disseminating literate and associative cultures. Through these analyses, we see evidence of debates that have been proposed for a long time, understanding that female intellectual training is fundamental to the exercise of freedom and participation in associative organizations. Thus, this research investigates what it means to exist as a woman in this context, as well as explaining that women were both part of the world of work and also acted as active representatives over the years in favor of better living conditions for those who live a new regime of free and salaried work. Based on these perspectives, we investigated the actions of Albina Quitéria Ribeiro e Gil, Belmira de Campos, Julieta Rodrigues de Almeida e Silva, Maria de Oliveira Pinto Machado, Leonidia Barros, Constança Gutierres dos Santos, Maria do Amparo Esteves and Rosa Joaquina de Jesus, To corroborate our statements about the attitude and presence of women in different positions at the associative tables, the insertion of women in the long pages of two worlds of work and what was being guided by and for them based on moral, intellectual principles and discourses politicians broadcast on days of different ideological currents. Therefore, based on the experiences of these figures from the operational movement, we intend to reaffirm that the fact that women are active personalities in the pages of History, that based on the presence and absence of each one of them, it is possible to reveal what was in vogue at dinner city association.