Food surveys and surveys of living conditions in Brazil in the 1930s

• Autor(a) principal: Melo, Caroline dos Santos
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Costa-Souza, Jamacy, Dourado, Denise Braga
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Research, Society and Development
• Texto Completo: https://rsdjournal.org/index.php/rsd/article/view/29152
• topic: Inquiries; Nutrition; Food; Minimum wage; Life conditions.; Encuestas; Nutrición; Alimentación; Salario mínimo; Condiciones de vida.; Inquéritos; Nutrição; Alimentação; Salário mínimo; Condições de vida.

This article analyzes food surveys and research on living conditions carried out in Brazil in the 1930s. It is a documentary analysis whose data collection took place in newspaper collections in the National Digital Library, in the Revista do Arquivo Municipal de São Paulo, on the website of the Fundação Escola de Sociologia e Política de São Paulo, in the Digital Library of the Fundação Sistema Estadual de Análise de Dados Statísticos and in the book Research on the standard of living of workers in the city of São Paulo, from March to June 2021. Five surveys were identified and analyzed: Survey on popular food in a neighborhood of São Paulo; The living conditions of the working class in Recife - Economic study of their food; The standard of living of workers in the city of São Paulo; Survey on the standard of living of the families of public cleaning workers in the municipality of São Paulo; and the Survey to establish the minimum wage. Methodological differences were identified between two groups, one of physicians and the other of sociologists, especially regarding the data collection instrument: a questionnaire by physicians and notebooks by sociologists. Food was the main expense of families at the time; and two different points of view on the subject were observed: economic and nutritional. The findings also indicate that the surveys were, at the same time, a product and producer of the construction of working class food as a social problem in Brazil.