What makes tearing and sewing: Work, Worker's Lives and Working-Class Culture in Salvador's Textile Industry, Bahia, 1940-1970

• Grant number: 19/16210-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate
• Start date: November 30, 2019
• End date: October 29, 2020
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History
• Principal Investigator: Fernando Teixeira da Silva
• Grantee: Lucas Porto Marchesini Torres
• Supervisor: John D. French
• Host Institution: Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas (IFCH). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Duke University, United States
• Associated to the scholarship: 17/01705-9 - Social movements in dispute: repression, struggles and experiences of workers in Salvador (1947-1964), BP.DR

Abstract

This project outline underpins a request for an Overseas Research Exchange Fellowship and presents part of the research being developed in Brazil with funding from Fapesp. Based on the observations of a specific professional category, textile workers, the project seeks to analyze the set of relationships established by the workers amongst themselves, with bosses and superiors, with worker's representatives and with police agents, seeking to understanding the play of persecutions, interdependencies and conquests in which they were involved. We seek to understand the conflicts, concessions and approximations that make up a system where relationships of bargaining and reciprocity between different social classes that manifest diverse aspirations, at times accepting, at times denying and sometimes multiplying their differences, are present. The fellowship proposal outlined here also seeks to develop a historical analysis from a comparative perspective between Bahia and North Carolina. (AU)