Trabalho e resistência: o cotidiano dos trabalhadores carroceiros em Montes Claros/MG, 1970

Abstract

The present research will go back to the daily work cartwrights that act in the urban space of Montes Claros/MG, in order to analyze their lives, the job and the interactions relations of the same in the urban context. The sources used were based in the performed interviews with the workers, and also the documents of the municipal prefecture. The applied methodology was based on oral history. Besides being unprecedented in approaching the work and daily life of cartwrights, the memories of these subjects have evidenced not only the stories of their lives linked to the day to day of an informal worker, as it was also possible to know the city from the eyes of the same. When acting in a marginalized activity and in precarious conditions, they face various types of conflicts, but also demonstrate different resistance tactic, in order to maintain the right to work in the city.