Da classificação à fiação: as experiências dos operários têxteis da fábrica Laneira Brasileira em Pelotas /RS (1980-1988).

Abstract

This dissertation highlights for analysis the experiences of textile factory workers from Laneira Brasileira Sociedade Anônima Indústria e Comércio, located in the city of Pelotas/RS, in between the period 1980 to 1988. Whose situation for that moment were nothing favorable for the textile factory in the country, especially wool industry, faced a process of devaluation of wool in the national and international with the synthetic yarn advance, which was more attractive economically for textile consumer market. Thus, the wool industries in the country, different international, slow to modernize, there by allowing certain obsolescence of its production. In the case of the Laneira Brasileira factory, it was found that to reduce spending and thus survive the crisis of wool sector, intensified the use of a series of labor irregularities, already present during the factory history, but gain greater prominence in during the 1980s due to the context and also need to expand the staff with the opening of Spinning and Weaving sector. Labor issues most demanded in judicial process and present in the memories of interviewed were: irregularities with regard to labor records in the Professional Working Papers and non-payment of additional insalubrity. Therefore, this study investigates through the dossiers of factory workers Laneira Brasileira factory of oral history interviews and process judicial labor, through the concept of Thompson's experience (1981), the tactics developed by social actors these labor irregularities lived in the working daily in wool factory.