Mão de obra na Fábrica de Ferro de São João de Ipanema: um catálogo de documentos do Arquivo Público do Estado de São Paulo (1810-1842)

• Autor(a) principal: Santos, Karina Oliveira Morais dos [UNIFESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Tipo de documento: Trabalho de conclusão de curso
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNIFESP
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.unifesp.br/handle/11600/67794
• topic: Manufacturing management; Free man; Slavery; Ipanema Iron Factory; Administração fabril; Homens livres; Escravidão; Fábrica de Ferro de Ipanema

This work intends to present a case study by taking as object the work relations within the the Real Fábrica de Ferro São João de Ipanema, considered as the first steel factory in Brazil, formerly located at the Vila de Sorocaba, currently the city of Iperó, in São Paulo state. The research pretends to reflect, from the creation of a manuscript documents catalog, the labor dynamic in the factory, as well as the transformations it passed through since its official foundation in 1810 until the 1842’s, the period that the catalog covers. The steel factory brings up uncountable specificities underexplored by researches, such as: the industrialization process of the Vila de Sorocaba; the socialization of free worker and slaves sharing the same space; the work conditions of these distinct group of workers, as well as their dissatisfactions and ways of demonstrating it; the difficulties that the imperial government had to maintain the factory; the mixed capital composition (the State and private shareholders); the management changes; the distribution of funds; the formation of a consumer market, besides; the uncountable other questions that deserves more visibility of the historiography. The Arquivo Público of São Paulo state (APESP) keeps a vast manuscript documentation of the factory, such as official records, charters, contracts, requirements, mandates, accounts and memorandum. Through part of these documents, this work pretendsto discuss some of the presented questions, as well as to introduce the confectioned catalog, which will serve as a work toll to the continuity of these and further researches.