Workers housing from CESP: the process of dismount

Author(s)

Mônica Peixoto Vianna

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: São Carlos.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola de Engenharia de São Carlos (EESC/SBD)
• Defense date: 2006-10-05

Examining board members

Telma de Barros Correia; Carlos Roberto Monteiro de Andrade; Maria Lucia Caira Gitahy

• Advisor: Telma de Barros Correia

Abstract

The present dissertation studies the dismount of workers housing from Companhia Energética de São Paulo (CESP) through the analysis of the cases of Barra Bonita, Bariri and Porto Primavera. By dismount is understood the modification of the work management system, which was based on a model where companies and workers housing used to belong to the same system. One of the issues noticed through this investigation was that this process happened in different ways. In some cases, they were alienated and sold to leisure and tourism enterprises; in others, they were yielded to Fundação CESP, in order to be converted into lodges for its workers. There were some where the houses were converted into neighborhoods or cities and, in the most extreme cases, the houses were demolished. The main goal of this research is to investigate and analyze the spatial configuration of the workers housing from CESP as well as the justifications and characteristics of the process of dismount that had occurred in this places, studying and comparing the different destinations from the three cases chosen for a deeper examination. The whole work was based on a bibliographic research about the subject; on systematizations and surveys of information acquired from documents in historical archives to the electrical companies of São Paulo, on records from the hydroelectric factories and cities selected to be analyzed and on visits to the dismounted workers housing in order to collect pictures and make interviews. On a large number of workers housing analyzed was noticed a singular kind of dismount, in which the change on the spatial arrange was related to the CESP intention, on selling them and, to the interest of the leisure and tourism enterprises, in buying and converting them. (AU)