Article
Portuguese
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oai:doaj.org/article:356a2d45020642aabd8584eb304083c1>
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DOI: <
10.25246/direitoedesenvolvimento.v9i1.627>
Abstract
O article discusses the tension between public authorities and ordinary workers in the city of Fortaleza during the 19th century. Initially, workers, in the middle of the local tradition, moved freely across the public space. In the second half of the 19th century, after an intense process of modernisation and formalisation of the city, people were forced to migrate to marginality, forbidden from working in the name of civility and morality, with the help of the law, since it institutionalised such restrictions on movement. The aim of the text is to understand how the process of removing sellers and loading their usual rights to work has been gradually removed from their hands. It is concluded from this research that the laws passed by the fortress political elite have benefited the emerging business class to the detriment of the working poor by removing them from access to citizenship and their rights. Draws attention to the fact that the already well-established right of freedom to go and come, supported by the guarantee of freedom to go and come, did not amount to an impediment to the application of local legislation which limited exactly the same freedom to go and come. This inevitably leads to discussion of the strength of the law in a highly patrimonialist society.