The centrality of work in the social formation of the village of Marzagão

Authors

  • Rodrigo Pletikoszits Ávila

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/1984-9222.2009v1n1p65

Keywords:

Workers towns, workers disciplining, Marzagão

Abstract

This article has because of identifying objective and discussing the construction of strategies and of a disciplinal standard in the relations of work in the ancient factory of cloths of Marzagão. This working town of ends of the century XIX, when MG was located in the local authority of Sabará–, came counting with around two thousand residents. It had an totality structure, in which the residents were not needing to go out from the place of work to study, to show his religious beliefs, to celebrate, or even to consume. The changes occurred in the context economical-politician of the country, associated to the administrative internal questions affected straightly the life of the workers. The town that survived his apogee between the decades of 1920 and 1950, began to go down. From the decade of 1960 the factory and the town suffer a process of decadence. The analysis of this case can contribute to the understanding of the social relations of the work in similar factories of the same periods.

Author Biography

Rodrigo Pletikoszits Ávila

Mestre em Ciências Sociais pela PUC Minas e Graduado em História na mesma instituição

Published

2009-03-19

How to Cite

ÁVILA, Rodrigo Pletikoszits. The centrality of work in the social formation of the village of Marzagão. Revista Mundos do Trabalho, Florianópolis, v. 1, n. 1, p. 65–95, 2009. DOI: 10.5007/1984-9222.2009v1n1p65. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/mundosdotrabalho/article/view/1984-9222.2009v1n1p65. Acesso em: 9 dec. 2025.

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