Memória empresarial e memória sindical: movimentos hegemônicos e contra hegemônicos de um campo em disputa (1980-2013)

Abstract

This paper is the reflection axis movements of dispute set around the memory, between the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. Based on the investigative procedures and placements of Social History, analyzes the corporate memory developed in contemporary social reality - such as establishing space investigative Memory Center Votorantim with their collections and exhibitions - in its relations with the struggles established by labor movements and movements social, especially from the 1980s, the right to history and memory. Political practices of preserving the experiences of workers occurred in that context - which were transformed in documentary sources, the preservation of which projected the construction of a particular social memory against hegemonic - business groups lobbied to systematize and recount their stories and memories, basing and the legitimized them by incorporating oral history from which consist historicities that articulated the specific heritage and educational processes, consolidate hegemonic social and cultural forms in contemporary reality. This contradictory movement, unions have established experience of confrontation embodied in the organization of the documentation centers and memory association to reopen discussions and recompose memory as a field of social and political struggle.