Vozes dissonantes do “Progresso”: cotidiano, exploração e resistência dos operários em Campina Grande (1930-1965).

Abstract

The aim of this work is understanding how working class men and women in their conflictive experiences and in their conflicts in justice built a working-class conscience between the years of 1930-1965 . In this way, from using of criminal processes, newspaper articles and labor claims, we research elements their culture, as such with their concepts of law and justice, searching for class struggles without classes in their actions. So, our hipotesis is that the working-class living a miserable life in the city what we can see in their housing and working conditions. In this way, we’ll try in this work find out places of to have fun and sociability of the workers , also we show the social forms of control created by fisrt-classes to “civilizate” the having fun ways and lives of “people from below” and the repression of the unions. As least, we’ll try to understand the hidden nets of solidarity and/or of conflict in the collective claims labor in justice, what will allow to comprehend class relationships sociability and friendship with their fellows and conflict with their bosses.