‘Núcleo de Documentação Histórica’ of Ufpel and its historical collections on issues of labor

Abstract

The Núcleo de Documentação Histórica (History Documentation Center) of the Universidade Federal de Pelotas was founded in 1990, its main goal is to organize the University historical collections, that were spread among its different courses. Over the years, however, the Center has changed its orientation, by adding, mostly, documents that involve the workers world. Three historical collections will be introduced in this article: Delegacia Regional do Trabalha, gathers more than 600 thousand of qualifications, between the years 1933 and 1968, of several cities in the RS; Justiça do Trabalho, that gathers more than 100 thousand processes, between the years of 1936 and 1955; and Laneira Brasileira S.A., an enterprise founded in 1945, in Porto Alegre, and then transfered to Pelotas, between 1948 and 1949.