When the whistle didn’t blow: working experience and class identity in a declining working neighborhood (Barreto – Niterói)

• Autor(a) principal: Wollmann, Luciana
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Mediações - Revista de Ciências Sociais
• Texto Completo: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/mediacoes/article/view/9658
• topic: Cia. Fluminense de tecidos; Identities; Workers; Cia. Fluminense de tecidos; Identidades; Trabalhadores

The objective of the present work is to analyze how the process of redefining social identities took place – especially “the class” from the old employees of theFluminenseFabric Company, a secular factory located in the neighborhood of Barretoin the city of Niterói – RJ, since the end of the seventies, when the Company started to show the initial signs of a crisis and the neighborhood began a gradual process of industrial exodus. It is our interest to understand how jobreduction, combined with the destructuringof the old working neighborhood and the lack of better opportunities in the current neighborhood, contributed to a strengthening of the workers identity of this group of workers and corroborated to an exercise of re-elaboration of its own labor trajectory dedicated to the Company.