Sede de leitura: memórias da biblioteca popular do serviço de alimentação da previdência social (SAPS) no cotidiano de Juiz de Fora

Abstract

The central idea of the present study is revisiting the politics established by the government Vargas in 1942 well known as Social Secure Feeding Service. The proposition of this autarchy was providing worth and cheep food for the working class people through Popular Restaurants. It was created in association to these restaurants the Popular Library and Popular Music Hall whose destiny were also attending the poor side of the population. This service was extinguished during the military dictatorial government in 1967. Because of its characteristic of industrial economy Juiz de Fora was contemplated with one unity of the Social Secure Feeding Service in 1948.The remembrance of this research has as objective trying to understand the meaning of this cultural an feeding space for the working class people and also for the Juiz de Fora community. The historical period and its focus are justifiable by the interregnum of the institution during its existence. The theoretical fundaments of E. P. Thompson on his interpretation of the history as a permanent dialectical movement interweaved with the dialogism by Bakhtin and the human development theory by Vygotsky provide the necessary fulcrum of the data analysis. Because of the specifics of the theme in focus it has been opted for a historical and cultural approach. The itinerary that has been followed was guided by the methodology of oral history complemented by written and iconographic sources available from files research. It can be concluded after data analysis that the Popular Restaurant of the Social Secure Feeding Service because of the addition to its structure of a Popular Library and a Popular Music Hall had turned into a relevant space of socialization and had also promoted the increment of educational and cultural activities in Juiz de Fora.