Sudeste goiano: seus trabalhadores, seus construtores, suas memórias nossas histórias

Abstract

The field built and rebuilt in the memories of the workers of Southeast Goias is constituted in the thesis that we present now. In a process of reading and re-reading interviews produced from the year of 2000, we search to deepen meanings that memories related to the countryside can bring some of the redefinitions of the relations of work that these workers were subdued in the second half of the 20th century. Maintaining a dialog with the interviews produced with men and women, workers who suffered redefinitions in their lives due to the change from the countryside to the city, we point out some issues productions in history that, having countryside and city apart in the dynamics of production and consumption, blame for the first one a space which people were setting themselves up from a situation of economical misery and political apathy, condition which would be freed by going to the city, place in which capitalism would favor, for the salaried work and for the technological advancements, a redemption of the conditions survived in the countryside. We refuse to acknowledge a way of thinking in which the memories of the workers are put behind, in structures which are strange to their world, though at some point they are galvanized. These structures, at the same time in which they attribute little political relevance to the actions of the countryside workers, they intend to appoint authorized spokeswomen of these characters. The subject allowed testing our understanding of culture, while indissociable from the practices and expectations that these workers used to have or still have. In this way, we reflect that the pressures, which they suffered and to which was printed in an unstable fact, were determinant for the redefinitions that either the countryside as for the city passed through in that period. We look for, in the effort of reconstituting the clash of powers that revealed in the changes, not to level out the memories, so that they would result in only two memories, the dominant and the dominated one. Through dialogs with some authors, mainly with Alessandro Portelli, we identified the existence of possible memories in the conditions of production and of different elaborations of the same area of pressures, revealing available means, which were used or not by many of the protagonists. This thesis allowed the reaffirmation that the categories work and workers set themselves up as and reconstitute in the social field, which inputs limits and pressures for this (re) construction, an always open process, continuous and unfinished in the memories which are produced.