Trabalhadores em flagrante: o cotidiano dos profissionais das ruas cariocas sob o traço e a lente da Fon-Fon!

Abstract

The central aim of this monograph is to analyze, through the illustrated magazine Fon-Fon!, the daily life of street workers in the city of Rio de Janeiro between 1907 and 1909. In a section immediately after Pereira Passos' urban reforms, we started with a thorough investigation of the periodical, which is here considered a source and object of research, to list written texts and images that referred to this newly reformed city and, through them, to identify which places in the city and the social subjects that the editors of Fon-Fon! chose to focus on in their pages. In this way, we proposed a series based on the photo column "Rio em flagrante: os nossos instantaneos", in which we identified, in the margins of the records, the presence of the street workers that the weekly tried to hide. Taking these findings into account, we also propose considerations about teaching history that escapes traditional approaches to the past, based on clippings from Fon-Fon!.