Lecture with subject "Tides of labor: gender and mobility in social history from the South Atlantic"
Speakers:
Laura G. Caruso, (National University of San Martin, National Scientific and Technical Research Council-Argentina)
Cristiana Schettini (National University of San Martin, National Scientific and Technical Research Council-Argentina)
Between the final decades of the nineteenth century and the First World War, overseas ships crossing the Atlantic became distinctive spaces marked by intense social conflicts. Women traveling alone, without apparent male guardianship, were perceived as an international problem, while sailors and crew members who challenged the captain's authority expressed new forms of class conflict. During the transition to steam navigation and mass migrations to Latin America, these vessels became settings where hierarchical labor circuits and surveillance practices were established to control an unstable labor and moral world on board. This presentation examines the formation of a South American Atlantic space shaped by these dynamics of power and negotiation, where technical transformations, conflictive labor relations, and gender disputes intersected.