RECIFE COLOR ARTISTICS: PRIVILEGES CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE ATTEMPT OF SCHOOLING OF CRAFTS - DECADE OF 1840 AND 1850

Abstract

: In the West, the end of the 18th Century witnessed the weakening of some kinds of social organization bound to the Old System. In the labor world, for instance, craft guilds were fought and their monopolistic privileges were destroyed. In Europe, nations such as France and England gradually created professionalizing schools, which sought to mortally strike the handcraft apprenticeship and the power of craft masters. In Brazil, the 1824 Constitution, inspired in illustrated and European values, extinguished the craft guilds as well. However, the State did little to create schools of arts and crafts. There was an important loop between the prohibition of the education monopoly in the workshops and the creation of significant school organizations intended to the training of future workers. In Recife, a group of dark-skinned, free craft masters, who experienced corporate privileges, tried to occupy the vacant place left the State. This article deals with the flows and reflows of such an attempt