Convents without Nuns: Historical Analysis of Women Workers in a Textile Factory



Título del documento: Convents without Nuns: Historical Analysis of Women Workers in a Textile Factory
Revista: BAR - Brazilian Administration Review
Base de datos: CLASE
Número de sistema: 000496242
ISSN: 1807-7692
Autores: 1
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Instituciones: 1Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. Brasil
Año:
Periodo: Abr-Jun
Volumen: 16
Número: 2
Paginación: 1-27
País: Brasil
Idioma: Portugués
Tipo de documento: Artículo
Enfoque: Analítico, descriptivo
Resumen en inglés This paper aims to contribute to the historical unveiling of a certain set of dispositives and discourses that befell Brazilian textile factory working women who came to reside in the convents inaugurated in the last decades of the 19th century by a textile company located in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. By appropriating methodological contributions such as historical document analysis, we present a historically-situated analysis of the discourses and truth effects organized by the company that influenced the lives of these women, along with an articulation of gender issues and the dynamics of power relations. An analytical scheme following the writings of Michel Foucault is proposed, in order to discuss the statements and their truth effects in the factory worker’s lives, as well as to create an analytical lens through which the discussion of gender issues can take place. Our findings include the demonstration of how gender can be seen beyond a binary, sexist and biological vision, that is, close to a historical creation of power relations that still involves the female sexed body. Lastly, we also demonstrated how the gendered idea of a female factory worker is strongly built via discourse and performed routinely by the enforced compliance to gendered norms that constrain and constitute a female worker’s subjectivity
Disciplinas: Economía,
Historia
Palabras clave: Economía del trabajo,
Historia social,
Brasil,
Mujeres,
Trabajadoras,
Industria textil,
Análisis histórico,
Relaciones de poder,
Género,
Estudios organizacionales
Texto completo: https://biblat.unam.mx/hevila/BARBrazilianadministrationreview/2019/vol16/no2/2.pdf