Jogos de forças impressos: Os mundos do trabalho carioca nas folhas d´O Malho (1903 – 1906)

Abstract

This study examines the main representations of the worlds of labor in Rio de Janeiro circulating in the illustrated magazine O Malho between 1903 and 1906. Grounded in the concept of the “chronicle-magazine” (revista-crônica), the investigation is conducted through the systematic collation with the daily press, thereby illuminating the retrospective and prospective dynamics deployed by the periodical regarding working-class themes. Informed by the historiography of the Social History of Labor and Culture, this research jointly examines the celebrations of May 1st and May 13th, as well as working-class leisure practices and the hundreds of strikes that occurred during those years. Ultimately, it sheds light on the ways in which the weekly’s editors and journalists framed and mediated these and other public demonstrations carried out by diverse working men and women in post-Abolition Brazil.