Between the field and the mine: values and hybridizations in the trajectories of coal miners in southern Brazil

• Autor(a) principal: Cioccari, Marta
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Mundos do Trabalho
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/mundosdotrabalho/article/view/1984-9222.2015v7n14p75

By analyzing narratives of workers in coal mining in the region of Lower Jacuí in Rio Grande do Sul, whose trajectories pass between urban and rural, suggest the existence of multiple honor of conceptions in this context, related mainly, the tragic character of the profession, trade union militancy and games that broadly characterize the relations of miners with their activity. In this universe – in the underground mine was shut down in 2002 – emerged in the reports, with the pride of "job well done" and the exaltation of professional skills and "courage" to face bosses and managers, events that highlight the "smarts "the" boldness "and the very art of trickery, a kind of anti-honor that can be a source of prestige and recognition. The conceptions that refer to local construction forms of their dignity coexist with representation around the "great honor" of the profession, the public image of heroism that carry workers in underground mines in different parts of the world.