A formação industrial de Petrópolis: trabalho, sociedade e cultura operária (1870-1937)

Abstract

The dissertation deals with the formation process of the industrial city of Petropolis. Located in the mountainous region of Rio de Janeiro state, about 860 meters altitude and 65 km away from the city of Rio de Janeiro, Petrópolis possessed significant textile production in the twentieth century, being a reference in that branch of national industrial production. The world of work concerning the proletarian life of Petropolis is the focus of this research analysis. Historical time adopted here is from the year 1872 - formation of the first textile companies - by the year 1937 - a time when companies had large production and labor relations were highly experienced within the production plants and also in the social environment. We've been adopted so the period of birth and growth of the textile companies. The first objective of this paper is to discuss the textile companies and their experiences with productive backdrop of the different political and economic times that Brazil lived in historical time in question. The second goal is to complement the first, aiming to check the workers who worked in the textile companies in regard to their political movements, their strategies and daily life as workers but also as social agents who lived beyond the walls of the factories. Thus, this study considers a proposal for a reading of the past little studied in Petropolis, the industrial past that is so neglected front of dominance of an aristocratic past that seeks to reinforce in what was once the city's vacation emperor Dom Pedro II.