Interview about the work studies with professor Dra. Melina Perussatto (UFRGS)

Abstract

The following interview was given by professor Dr. Melina Perussato in 2021. The interview deals with the world of work (labor studies), focusing on the interviewee’s areas of expertise, such as emancipations and post abolition in Brazil, as well as current issues related to labor.The interview’s concern was the need to discuss current issues of labor relating them to historiography, and the need to constanly bring up the issue of labor in Brazil: a theme that is frequently present in the daily lives of all citizens and is the subject of constant debate and multiple theoretical and methodological approaches.In the interview, Professor Melina brings her considerations about the theme, and present her own academic trajectory as a starting point for the discussion. Her theoretical and methodological contributions are explained in the text, and her research sources are addressed for further elucidation of the issue. Through theoretical questions and academic references, Melina Perussato provides us with reflective content. A class in the form of an interview is what is presented here, taking us along the paths of recent historiography about labor studies through a critical point of view.