“…It has also meant that the emphasis thus far has been overwhelmingly on male, not female workers 43 . It is true that there are a few studies of chemical plant workers and bank employees (see Corrêa, 2014; BLASS, 1992; Guimarães, 1990), but these studies remain confined to the 1950s and earlier. Textile workers have also begun to be “rediscovered,” as in the recent dissertation by Felipe Ribeiro (2015), which, through its focus on both male and female weavers (as well as rural laborers) in Magé, one of Brazil's “little Moscows,” showed how repression and police violence left their mark on local memory for decades.…”