EDUCATION AND WOMEN'S PARTICIPATION IN THE UNION MOVEMENT: AN INTERSECTIONAL APPROACH OF GENDER, RACE AND CLASS
Union Trade Movement. Feminist struggles. Social Class. Gender. Race. Education.
This dissertation aims to investigate the relationship between education and women's
participation in the trade union movement, specifically regarding the representativeness of
black women in the Central Única dos Trabalhadores and the Sindicato dos Trabalhadores
nas Indústrias de Papel e Celulose da Bahia. Based on the influence of studies about the
intersection between race, gender and class, and studies about education, I analyze the
Brazilian women in trade unionism, based on the institutional politics of CUT and its
unfoldings in CUT. The research is based on my empirical experience, and it has a scientific
character through a quali-quantitative and exploratory methodology, systematized by the
application of online questionnaires and educational workshops. During the research, through
CUT's institutional publications, I analyze the process of consolidation and implementation
of the policy of quotas and parity in this central, in search of possible contradictions between
the legal text and its effective implementation, considering representativeness as an analytical
category and key to understanding. As a result, I outline a theoretical approach that sheds
light on the topics: social class, emancipatory education, labor movement, race, gender, and
social movement. At the end, the work leads to the conclusion that the multiple oppressions,
when intersected, constitute acute challenges to female representation in the union struggle,
and may, however, collide with a confrontation from critical, reflective, and continued
educational practices, which break with alienated perceptions about reality.