As relações de trabalho na cidade de São João del-Rei em uma perspectiva histórica

Abstract

Work Relatíonships have been approached by several authors, and beneath under aspects. This discurse considers that the work relatíonships are determined by the political, economic and social relations characteristics of the society. Therefore, the purpose is to describe and analyse the work relatíonships during the flrst half ofthe 18 *, in the city of São João del-Rei. Through bibliographic research, a historical contextualization about the Portuguese State and its antecendents was elaborated. Through such history search, a longitudinal study has been performed using primary sources, documentation originating from the Ultramarine Historie File of Portugal. A historie investigatíon and description were carried out to explain the development ofwork relatíonships in the region. São João dei- Rei is located in the route of many colonial paths, being, therefore, a comercial emporium to the trevelers who departed from São Paulo, Rio and Bahia bound for the mines. The remarkable characteristics of the period are the urban formation, mobility, itinerance, disharmony, divergences and ambivalences. For the produetive activities, a large number of slaves was commonly used, and these without the right of working freedom. The rigid control imposed by the metropolis has the purpose of maintaining the crown power and the chaige oftributes, such as the "fífth part", in which 20% of the gold from the mining is destinated to the Real Public Finances and the capacitation, which would incide on every slave. The population continuously frauds the present vigillance on the obeying the impositions from the Kingdom of Portugal through intentional deviation and contraband. Portugal creates a bureaucratíc machine featuring a great number of management agents, that constitute micropowers, who decide on tasks to be executed and imprinting movement on the colony's everyday life.