Mundo operário e questões de gênero

The modernization process of Rio de Janeiro since the end of the 19th century often failed to take into account the popular sectors that fought for survival amidst strong repression, the city's unsanitary conditions and, in the case of factory workers and other wage earners, low wages. And since the final decades of the 1800s, women and children began to make up a considerable part of the workforce, principally in the textile sector.