This thesis traces the history of labor legislation from colonial America through 1947.

This dissertation examines the experience of the tens of thousands of Chinese indentured laborers (colonos asiáticos or “coolies”) who went to Cuba and Peru as replacements for African slaves during the middle of the nineteenth century. Despite major sociopolitical differences (i.e., colonial slave society vs. independent republic without slavery), this comparative project reveals the common nature in the transition from slavery to free labor. Specifically, the indenture system, how the Chinese reacted to their situation, and how they influenced labor relations mirrored each other in the two societies. I contend that colonos asiáticos, while neither slaves nor free laborers, created a foundation for a shift from slavery to free labor. Elites in both places tried to fit the Chinese into competing projects of liberal “progress” and conservative efforts to stem this change, causing them to imagine these immigrant laborers in contradictory ways (i.e., free vs. slave, white vs. non-white, hard-working vs. lazy, cultured vs. morally corrupt). This ambiguity excused treating Asian laborers as if they were slaves, but it also justified treating them as free people. Moreover, Chinese acts of resistance slowly helped undermine this labor regime. Eventually, international pressure, which never would have reached such heights if the Chinese had remained passive, forced an end to the “coolie” trade and left these two societies with little option but to move even closer to free labor. That said, this work also considers the ways in which the differing socio-political contexts altered the Chinese experience. In particular, in contrast to Peru, Cuba’s status as a colonial slave society made it easier for the island’s elites to justify exploiting these workers and to protect themselves from mass rebellion. My dissertation places the histories of Cuba and Peru into a global perspective. It focuses on the transnational migration of the Chinese, on their social integration into their new Latin American host societies, as well as on the international reaction to the situation of immigrant laborers in Latin America. / text

Nossa pesquisa investiga a criança - escrava, ingênua ou livre, com idade inferior a 15 anos - inserida como mão-de-obra nos domicílios de Mariana, Minas Gerais, durante a segunda metade do século XIX. Esta localidade, desde o declínio da mineração, passou a ter a produção de alimentos como atividade econômica principal. O período contemplado foi de transição do sistema escravista para o sistema livre de trabalho. A cessação do tráfico internacional de escravos, a liberdade concedida a crianças nascidas de mães escravas e a escravos com mais de 60 anos foram partes de um processo de transição gradual, cujo corolário foi a abolição da escravatura. De 1850 a 1871, os senhores tinham no tráfico interno e na reprodução natural a esperança de perpetuação do regime, mas, depois da Lei Rio Branco, a segunda possibilidade foi eliminada pelo ventre livre. Tal lei, entretanto, permitia aos escravistas a utilização da mão-de-obra dos ingênuos até que estes completassem 21 anos. O senhor que desejasse manter a utilização da mão-de-obra coercitiva teria algumas dificuldades (a maior delas, talvez, fosse a elevação dos preços dos cativos). Nesse contexto, muitos projetos buscaram contornar a ausência do escravo. Entre eles, alguns idealizavam o uso da mão-de-obra nacional, especialmente de livres pobres, libertos e ingênuos. Dentro dessa alternativa, a criança, que poderia ser educada desde cedo para o trabalho, tinha papel relevante. Nossa pesquisa demonstra que entre os fatores pelos quais a criança se inseria no mundo do trabalho, estavam o cativeiro, a orfandade, a ilegitimidade e a pobreza. Os pequenos trabalhadores executavam tarefas ligadas à roça, ao pastoreio e aos serviços domésticos. A documentação revelou poucas crianças com idade inferior a 7 anos inseridas na labuta, mas o número de trabalhadores aumentava progressivamente nas faixas etárias seguintes. Percebe-se que dos 12 aos 14 anos, os menores já têm suas profissões descritas nos documentos. Investigamos uma extensa gama de fontes primárias. Foram inventários post-mortem, matrículas de escravos e de ingênuos, registros de compra e venda de escravos, processos judiciais, cartas de alforria, mapas de população, listas de habitantes, o Recenseamento Geral do Império de 1872 e os relatórios de presidente da província. Tais documentos, cartoriais ou oficiais, possibilitaram-nos vislumbrar as características do trabalho infantil na Mariana oitocentista. / This research studies the children (slave, \"ingênuo\" or free; under 15 years old) inserted as laborers in Mariana (Minas Gerais) households during the second half of the 19th century. Since the decline of mining, that locality consolidated the subsistence economy as its main activity. The focused period constitutes a transition from slavery to a free labor system. The interruption of international slave traffic and the emancipation of children born of slave mothers and of slaves over 60 years old were events of a gradual transition process, culminating in the abolition of slavery. From 1850 to 1871, the internal traffic and natural reproduction were the only ways to perpetuate slave labour, but the latter possibility was excluded by Lei Rio Branco. However, that law authorized the slaveholders to use \"ingênuos\'s\" labor up to the age of 21. The slaveholder who wanted to keep forced labour would have some kind of difficulties (the worst of them, maybe, was a rise in the cost of the slaves). In these circumstances, many projects tried to compensate for the absence of slave labour. Among them, there were those which focused on the use of native workers, particularly poor free men, freedmen and \"ingênuos\". By this conception, the children, who could be early educated for work, had a considerable role. Some of the reasons why children began to work were the captivity, orphanhood, illegitimacy and poorness. The young workers did tasks as farmhand, shepherds and domestic servants. The documentation contained few working children under 7 years old, but the number of working children increased progressively in the following age groups. From 12 to 14 years old, the children already had their occupations described in the documents. We examined a vast set of register office sources - post-mortem inventories, slave and \"ingênuos\" registrations, records of slave purchases and sales, judicial suits, letters of emancipation - and official sources - population maps, inhabitant lists, 1872 census, provincial presidential reports -,which gave us an idea of the children\'s labour in Mariana in the 19th century.

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ABSTRACT This study employed components drawn from Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT), the person agency and environment, to investigate the determinants of career-relevant knowledge/skills learning. Three types of psychological contract (PC) and self-efficacy (SE) were represented the person agency, and the job availability in free labor market (FLM) and commitment-oriented human resource management (HRM) were represented environment components. Based on the data from 990 employees from 62 firms analyzing, the findings revealed that relational and balanced PCs are positively related to firm-specific knowledge learning aspiration (KLA), whereas transactional one has negative relation with firm-specific KLA. FLM is positively correlated with self value-added KLA. SE is positively related to both KLAs. The three way interaction of relational and balanced PC, FLM, and SE has significant impacts on self value-added KLA. HRM has no direct impact on KLAs , but moderates the relationship between relational/balanced PC and firm-specific KLA. This study contributes to the psychological contract and SCCT researches, and the findings enhance the understanding of employees¡¦ concerns about their learning decisions which assist employer to consider their knowledge management strategy and practices.

Book consumption is no longer only a solitary practice of one person sitting in an armchair with a bound volume of their favorite novel or the latest paperback bestseller. Books have become part of what Henry Jenkins has termed convergence culture. Books are no longer just books, they are also adapted into films, they are available as audiobooks and e-books, they are accompanied by websites, author blogs, and dedicated Facebook pages, they are continued by fans writing their own stories based on the original, they are discussed in online forums and communities, and they are being reviewed in Youtube videos, to just name a few. Convergence culture refers to the spread of content over different platforms and devices, the conglomeration of media companies on the production side, and the new possibilities for participation on the side of consumers. Media and communication studies have curiously neglected book consumption in its re-examination of audience studies in the light of convergence. This study assumes that audience studies, redefined to account for cross-media use and active as well as passive aspects of consumption, are well suited to investigate contemporary book consumption. The aim of this study is to explore media use surrounding books in the broad sense described above. It also investigates how commercial structures on the one hand and participation on the other shape book consumption. To do so, this study exemplarily analyzes the book related media use of members of an online reading community (Lovelybooks). Methodologically this study follows a mixed-methods approach by adopting the concept of media repertoires. Media repertoires describe patterns of habitual media use, thus integrating the quantitative mapping of media use with the analysis of the meaningful principles behind it. The results from a survey that was distributed to Lovelybooks’ members describe which media components are used, how they are combined and to what extent they are participatory. Semi-structured interviews complement the survey results by exploring which influence commercial structures and the attitudes towards them have on Lovelybooks members’ participatory media use. The interpretation is informed by critical political economy, discussing the implications of an online community being commercially owned and run, the consequences of commercial structures for participation, and the appropriation of personal data and labor by corporations.

Nossa pesquisa investiga a criança - escrava, ingênua ou livre, com idade inferior a 15 anos - inserida como mão-de-obra nos domicílios de Mariana, Minas Gerais, durante a segunda metade do século XIX. Esta localidade, desde o declínio da mineração, passou a ter a produção de alimentos como atividade econômica principal. O período contemplado foi de transição do sistema escravista para o sistema livre de trabalho. A cessação do tráfico internacional de escravos, a liberdade concedida a crianças nascidas de mães escravas e a escravos com mais de 60 anos foram partes de um processo de transição gradual, cujo corolário foi a abolição da escravatura. De 1850 a 1871, os senhores tinham no tráfico interno e na reprodução natural a esperança de perpetuação do regime, mas, depois da Lei Rio Branco, a segunda possibilidade foi eliminada pelo ventre livre. Tal lei, entretanto, permitia aos escravistas a utilização da mão-de-obra dos ingênuos até que estes completassem 21 anos. O senhor que desejasse manter a utilização da mão-de-obra coercitiva teria algumas dificuldades (a maior delas, talvez, fosse a elevação dos preços dos cativos). Nesse contexto, muitos projetos buscaram contornar a ausência do escravo. Entre eles, alguns idealizavam o uso da mão-de-obra nacional, especialmente de livres pobres, libertos e ingênuos. Dentro dessa alternativa, a criança, que poderia ser educada desde cedo para o trabalho, tinha papel relevante. Nossa pesquisa demonstra que entre os fatores pelos quais a criança se inseria no mundo do trabalho, estavam o cativeiro, a orfandade, a ilegitimidade e a pobreza. Os pequenos trabalhadores executavam tarefas ligadas à roça, ao pastoreio e aos serviços domésticos. A documentação revelou poucas crianças com idade inferior a 7 anos inseridas na labuta, mas o número de trabalhadores aumentava progressivamente nas faixas etárias seguintes. Percebe-se que dos 12 aos 14 anos, os menores já têm suas profissões descritas nos documentos. Investigamos uma extensa gama de fontes primárias. Foram inventários post-mortem, matrículas de escravos e de ingênuos, registros de compra e venda de escravos, processos judiciais, cartas de alforria, mapas de população, listas de habitantes, o Recenseamento Geral do Império de 1872 e os relatórios de presidente da província. Tais documentos, cartoriais ou oficiais, possibilitaram-nos vislumbrar as características do trabalho infantil na Mariana oitocentista. / This research studies the children (slave, \"ingênuo\" or free; under 15 years old) inserted as laborers in Mariana (Minas Gerais) households during the second half of the 19th century. Since the decline of mining, that locality consolidated the subsistence economy as its main activity. The focused period constitutes a transition from slavery to a free labor system. The interruption of international slave traffic and the emancipation of children born of slave mothers and of slaves over 60 years old were events of a gradual transition process, culminating in the abolition of slavery. From 1850 to 1871, the internal traffic and natural reproduction were the only ways to perpetuate slave labour, but the latter possibility was excluded by Lei Rio Branco. However, that law authorized the slaveholders to use \"ingênuos\'s\" labor up to the age of 21. The slaveholder who wanted to keep forced labour would have some kind of difficulties (the worst of them, maybe, was a rise in the cost of the slaves). In these circumstances, many projects tried to compensate for the absence of slave labour. Among them, there were those which focused on the use of native workers, particularly poor free men, freedmen and \"ingênuos\". By this conception, the children, who could be early educated for work, had a considerable role. Some of the reasons why children began to work were the captivity, orphanhood, illegitimacy and poorness. The young workers did tasks as farmhand, shepherds and domestic servants. The documentation contained few working children under 7 years old, but the number of working children increased progressively in the following age groups. From 12 to 14 years old, the children already had their occupations described in the documents. We examined a vast set of register office sources - post-mortem inventories, slave and \"ingênuos\" registrations, records of slave purchases and sales, judicial suits, letters of emancipation - and official sources - population maps, inhabitant lists, 1872 census, provincial presidential reports -,which gave us an idea of the children\'s labour in Mariana in the 19th century.

Le woofing propose à des bénévoles de venir en aide à des « hôtes » propriétaires de fermes biologiques en échange du gîte, du couvert et du partage de connaissances. Ces « petites mains » novices des savoir-faire paysans s’activent aussi bien dans les champs que dans les maisonnées, et représentent une nouvelle forme d’entraide agricole. La thèse analyse le rôle du woofing dans les secteurs de l’agriculture paysanne française et québécoise, de même que ses usages par les woofeur·euses et les organisations du travail qui en découlent. Grâce à une approche féministe du travail, la thèse rend compte de l’articulation entre la reproduction sociale, c’est-à-dire l’entretien des vies humaines et non-humaines, et la production marchande dans le cas du woofing. La thèse repose sur une méthodologie ethnographique qui combine des immersions au sein des fermes en tant que woofeuse, une analyse documentaire et des entretiens semi-directifs avec hôtes, woofeur·euses et membres des organisations agricoles. La thèse montre tout d’abord comment le bénévolat dans ces entreprises commerciales constitue une anomalie juridique en France et au Québec, qui prend place dans des secteurs d’activités marqués par des fragilités structurelles, politiquement instituées dans une large mesure. S’il est mieux toléré au Québec qu’en France, le woofing fait l’objet d’un déni de travail dans les deux cas. Il recrute ensuite majoritairement des personnes privilégiées à la recherche d’une expérience touristique, militante ou professionnalisante. Enfin, paysan·nes et woofeur·euses interagissent au sein d’organisations alternatives du travail centrées sur le souci des autres, où la subordination est remplacée par le don. Les logiques du prendre soin, si elles peuvent susciter une usure chez les hôtes, permettent cependant de lutter contre les organisations productivistes du travail et ainsi de le re-visiter. / Woofing gives the opportunity to volunteers to help organic farmers in exchange for accommodation, food, and knowledge sharing. These novices learn peasant know-how and active both in the fields and in the households. Therefore, they represent a new form of agricultural mutual help. The thesis analyzes the role of woofing in France’s and Quebec’s peasant and agricultural sectors, as well as its uses by woofers and the work organizations structured by the practices of woofing. Based on a feminist approach of work, the thesis unveils the articulation between social reproduction, the maintenance of human and non-human lives, and market production on woofing. The thesis is based on an ethnographic methodology that combines farm immersions as a woofer, documentary analysis and semi-structured interviews with hosts, woofers, and members of agricultural organizations. First, the thesis shows how volunteering in these commercial enterprises constitutes a legal anomaly in France and Quebec, which takes place in sectors of activity marked by structural weaknesses, which are to a large extent politically instituted. If it is more tolerated in Quebec than in France, woofing is the subject of a denial of work in both cases. Then, the thesis explains that woofing recruits mostly privileged people looking for a tourist, militant, or professional experience. Finally, peasants and woofers interact within alternative work organizations centered on the concern for others, where subordination is replaced by a logic of “gift”. While causing wear among the hosts, the logics of taking care nevertheless enable to resist productivist organizations and therefore re-visit work.

A presente dissertação de mestrado registra as atividades de pesquisa aplicada em três experiências de formação profissional da Construção Civil em diferentes escolas. Os trabalhos de pesquisa visam contribuir com as ações pedagógicas dialógicas inseridas nos três processos formativos. O objetivo dessas ações é a contribuição com a ampliação da autonomia, a emancipação coletiva e a liberdade dos educandos, no sentido da busca pela \'desalienação\' do trabalho que realizam. As ações pedagógicas dialógicas abordadas inserem-se nas: 1. Atividades de Formação Integral do Ser, e Organização da Produção da Construção Civil - experiências de elaboração de desenhos e projetos de construção e a problematização das condições de desigualdade social e exploração do trabalho - nos cursos de pintura, alvenaria, instalações elétricas e hidráulicas e decoração, da Escola Municipal de Ensino Profissional em Construção Civil / Madre Celina Polci, Prefeitura de São Bernardo do Campo, SP. 2. Atividades de aproximação do processo de produção da arquitetura - experiências de elaboração coletiva de projeto executivo de arquitetura e sua construção, com as próprias mãos, como parte do futuro espaço de apoio do Canteiro Experimental da escola - como exercícios da disciplina optativa \'Técnicas Alternativas de Construção\' do curso de graduação da Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Universidade de São Paulo, SP. 3. Atividades de re-união e re-integração dos trabalhos de projeto e construção por meio da \'assembleia de obra\', como contribuição a formação dos integrantes da brigada de construção - composta por educandos da Escola Nacional Florestan Fernandes (ENFF), brigadistas permanentes e coordenadores da ENFF, profissionais assentados convidados e coletivo de estudantes e profissionais de arquitetura e urbanismo da USP - para a reforma da casa da brigada permanente, \'casa do teto verde\' da Escola Nacional Florestan Fernandes - Guararema, SP. As ações pedagógicas dialógicas demonstraram efetividade ao passo que, ao mesmo tempo em que eram apreendidas as diversas atividades profissionais da construção, ampliava-se, em graus variados, a compreensão dos educandos e egressos sobre os limites e barreiras impostas pelo Capital sobre a classe trabalhadora. Nesse sentido, é que se mantém a busca pela \'desalienação\' do trabalho, já que sua realização plena só será possível por meio de transformações sociais de ampla e irrestrita democratização dos direitos de acesso à apropriação, pela sociedade como um todo, dos produtos, dos processos e da fruição social resultantes do trabalho coletivo. / This master thesis describes the activities of research applied to three experiences of professional learning of Civil Construction in different schools. The research work is expected to contribute to the pedagogical actions dialogicaly inserted in the three formative processes. The purpose of these actions and contributions are the expansion of autonomy, collective emancipation and the freedom of the students, in the sense of a search for \'desalienation\' of the work they carry out. The pedagogical actions dialogical addressed are as: 1. Activities for \'integral formation of being\', and \'organization of production of Civil Construction\' - experiments in preparation of drawings and construction projects and the questioning of the conditions of social inequality and exploitation of labor - in courses in painting, masonry, electrical, hydraulic installations and decoration, at the Municipal School of Vocational Education in Civil Construction / Madre Celina Polci, Prefecture of São Bernardo do Campo, SP. 2. Activities of approximation of the production process of architecture - experiences of drawing up collective of executive project of architecture and construction, with their own hands, as part of the future area of support of Experimental Construction from the school - as exercises of optional discipline \'Alternative techniques of construction\" of the Graduate School of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of São Paulo, SP. 3. Activities of re-union and re-integration of the work of project and construction by means of \'house of work\', as a contribution to the training of members of the brigade of construction - composed by students of the National School Florestan Fernandes (ENFF), permanent brigadiers and coordinators from ENFF, professionals guests and collective of students and professionals from the architecture and urbanism school, USP - for the reform of the house of permanent brigade, \'house of green roof\' of the National School Florestan Fernandes - Guararema, SP. The pedagogical actions dialogical demonstrated effectiveness to the step that, at the same time that were seized the various professional activities of construction, it broadened, to varying degrees, the understanding of students and alumni on the limits and barriers imposed by capital on the working class. In this sense, and that remains the search for work \'disalienation\', now that its full realization is possible only by means of social transformation of broad and wide and unrestricted democratization of access rights to ownership, by the society as a whole of products, processes and social enjoyment resulting from the collective work.

A presente dissertação de mestrado registra as atividades de pesquisa aplicada em três experiências de formação profissional da Construção Civil em diferentes escolas. Os trabalhos de pesquisa visam contribuir com as ações pedagógicas dialógicas inseridas nos três processos formativos. O objetivo dessas ações é a contribuição com a ampliação da autonomia, a emancipação coletiva e a liberdade dos educandos, no sentido da busca pela \'desalienação\' do trabalho que realizam. As ações pedagógicas dialógicas abordadas inserem-se nas: 1. Atividades de Formação Integral do Ser, e Organização da Produção da Construção Civil - experiências de elaboração de desenhos e projetos de construção e a problematização das condições de desigualdade social e exploração do trabalho - nos cursos de pintura, alvenaria, instalações elétricas e hidráulicas e decoração, da Escola Municipal de Ensino Profissional em Construção Civil / Madre Celina Polci, Prefeitura de São Bernardo do Campo, SP. 2. Atividades de aproximação do processo de produção da arquitetura - experiências de elaboração coletiva de projeto executivo de arquitetura e sua construção, com as próprias mãos, como parte do futuro espaço de apoio do Canteiro Experimental da escola - como exercícios da disciplina optativa \'Técnicas Alternativas de Construção\' do curso de graduação da Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Universidade de São Paulo, SP. 3. Atividades de re-união e re-integração dos trabalhos de projeto e construção por meio da \'assembleia de obra\', como contribuição a formação dos integrantes da brigada de construção - composta por educandos da Escola Nacional Florestan Fernandes (ENFF), brigadistas permanentes e coordenadores da ENFF, profissionais assentados convidados e coletivo de estudantes e profissionais de arquitetura e urbanismo da USP - para a reforma da casa da brigada permanente, \'casa do teto verde\' da Escola Nacional Florestan Fernandes - Guararema, SP. As ações pedagógicas dialógicas demonstraram efetividade ao passo que, ao mesmo tempo em que eram apreendidas as diversas atividades profissionais da construção, ampliava-se, em graus variados, a compreensão dos educandos e egressos sobre os limites e barreiras impostas pelo Capital sobre a classe trabalhadora. Nesse sentido, é que se mantém a busca pela \'desalienação\' do trabalho, já que sua realização plena só será possível por meio de transformações sociais de ampla e irrestrita democratização dos direitos de acesso à apropriação, pela sociedade como um todo, dos produtos, dos processos e da fruição social resultantes do trabalho coletivo. / This master thesis describes the activities of research applied to three experiences of professional learning of Civil Construction in different schools. The research work is expected to contribute to the pedagogical actions dialogicaly inserted in the three formative processes. The purpose of these actions and contributions are the expansion of autonomy, collective emancipation and the freedom of the students, in the sense of a search for \'desalienation\' of the work they carry out. The pedagogical actions dialogical addressed are as: 1. Activities for \'integral formation of being\', and \'organization of production of Civil Construction\' - experiments in preparation of drawings and construction projects and the questioning of the conditions of social inequality and exploitation of labor - in courses in painting, masonry, electrical, hydraulic installations and decoration, at the Municipal School of Vocational Education in Civil Construction / Madre Celina Polci, Prefecture of São Bernardo do Campo, SP. 2. Activities of approximation of the production process of architecture - experiences of drawing up collective of executive project of architecture and construction, with their own hands, as part of the future area of support of Experimental Construction from the school - as exercises of optional discipline \'Alternative techniques of construction\" of the Graduate School of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of São Paulo, SP. 3. Activities of re-union and re-integration of the work of project and construction by means of \'house of work\', as a contribution to the training of members of the brigade of construction - composed by students of the National School Florestan Fernandes (ENFF), permanent brigadiers and coordinators from ENFF, professionals guests and collective of students and professionals from the architecture and urbanism school, USP - for the reform of the house of permanent brigade, \'house of green roof\' of the National School Florestan Fernandes - Guararema, SP. The pedagogical actions dialogical demonstrated effectiveness to the step that, at the same time that were seized the various professional activities of construction, it broadened, to varying degrees, the understanding of students and alumni on the limits and barriers imposed by capital on the working class. In this sense, and that remains the search for work \'disalienation\', now that its full realization is possible only by means of social transformation of broad and wide and unrestricted democratization of access rights to ownership, by the society as a whole of products, processes and social enjoyment resulting from the collective work.