Work and workers in modern Brazil (1954-1964): dialogue between two histories

Abstract

In Brazil, during the twentieth century, from 1954 to 1964, it is possible to observe the formation of a working class in Brazil, due to the enlargement of the national industrial park. This historical context was a fertile terrain for the genesis of the nationaldevelopmental ideological discourse. In the process of urbanization and industrialization, in the Ford/Taylor pattern, the unions and the political parties disputed the course of the working class in Brazil, which was formed as a new ethnical-regional mosaic, made up of, above all, national migrants coming from the rural areas of the country. Taking into consideration the macro-structural scenery and the subjective and symbolic dynamics of work, the analysis of the memories from ex-workers, who worked for different metallurgical industries from the automobile productive chain, throwed lights on the conflicting relations of the everyday life in the modern world, showing a continuous attempt from these subjects to overcome the condition of working machines.