As relações de trabalho na indústria calçadista de Franca

Abstract

The present work seeks to enlarge the discussion about the several transformations that happened in the work relationships inside the Franca footwear industries. To better understand such transformations the research was developed over the many transformations occurred in the city, since the geographical displacement of the industrial pole, until the places that were of great importance in the life of the francanos workers, as the Praça Nossa Senhora da Conceição, the heart of the city. The process of productive reorganization of the footwear industry was marked by the machinery modifications, by the subcontracting process of the productive sector parts (followed by the intense impoverishment of the work starting from 1990 decade) and by the organizational reorganization inside the companies, that reflected in a new form of the worker to exert their functions in the footwear industries. The workers demonstrated, through their experiences, how the alterations in their lives had happened inside of this so important productive footwear pole that Franca became. Moving by your people's power and generating and attracting more and more labor force, the city became world-wide known for the shoes production, mainly the masculine ones. In the "City of the Shoe" the shoemakers lived changes, organized themselves, searched and formed syndical union and political representations, and went to the streets to fight and bleed for their sacred rights of worker.