On the frontiers of non-work: poor working women and the definitions of vagrancy in the early twentieth century
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https://doi.org/10.5007/1984-9222.2009v1n2p65Keywords:
Women, Workers, Vagrancy, Rio de JaneiroAbstract
This article discusses the definitions of vagrancy for people that lived in Rio de Janeiro in the beginning of twentieth century. Authors who commented the Penal Code of 1890 discussed the terms of the article 399 and its applications. In the same way, Evaristo de Moraes dedicated some books to this theme, as well as journalists and literates who wrote to the press. But these debatesamong men of letters were also referred by common people, what is seen in the process of women that were arrest for vagrancy for several times. In these processes, the women that were arrested and the men who defended them gave new meanings to vagrancy and, through the time, it is possible to see changes in the way they defined the relationship of these women with the world of work.
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