Da sulanca à fabrica: configurações do trabalho no polo de confecções de Pernambuco.

Abstract

This search was developed with goal for analyze trajectories of formal and active entrepreneurs in the Clothing Pole of Pernambuco to learn in their narratives training and breeding sites job settings. The analysis it was structured in qualitative approach, using field research as an intervention form in place, through semi-structured interviews with eleven formalized entrepreneurs, during December 2014 to November 2015. After the interviews, it was built an interpretation of the local settings of work and production in three moments. The first moment, corresponds to the beginning of the trajectories, presents the elements and structural values that underpinned the garment production in Pole. The second, corresponds to the narrative of how if went to worker condition for entrepreneur status, exposing the strategies of entrepreneurs to set up their production structure, due to poor living conditions, and the uses made of the various existing types of work, to continue the production and consolidate their businesses. The third corresponds to the characterization of the current organization of work in the factories, i t exposes how the factories were upgraded in physical and technological terms, and that the main type of labor applied is the employed, subject to the control and discipline of rational management. However, the modernity of factories comes up against in the local traditions and inheritance of unskilled labor and semi-illiterate, composing a mix of features that aggregate the current organization of work in local traditions, the factory clean and modern up until multifunctional work and semi-literate. All this, makes thework in the Clothing Pole a challenge to the understanding of the work as the main element of the local socioeconomic constitution.