Workers Who Produce Industrial Fabrics and Cultivate the Land: Textile Labor, Migrations and Connections between Rural and Factory Work
This article explores the experiences of migrant workers, many from rural areas, who settled in a major center of the textile industry in Brazil, located in the state of Rio de Janeiro and which housed to four factories. Articulating several historical sources, we seek to understand both the agricu...
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This article explores the experiences of migrant workers, many from rural areas, who settled in a major center of the textile industry in Brazil, located in the state of Rio de Janeiro and which housed to four factories. Articulating several historical sources, we seek to understand both the agricultural practices maintained by migrants from the countryside, and the incentives to work in the fields fostered by employers in the factories. In contrast to studies guided by notions of modernization which have crudely linked the manufacturing world to progress as opposed to the agricultural, this article examines how rural and factory labor coexisted in multiple combinations. We argue that the term “roçado operário” (factory worker’s farm), used in many studies, is not enough to describe a far more varied and complex social phenomenon. Therefore, we propose a new framework for understanding the various forms of land use by these workers.
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| spelling | doaj.art-674fa5068405445d8658038c65b3afbb2022-12-22T03:40:21ZengRed Latinoamericana de Trabajo y Trabajadores (REDLATT)Revista Latinoamericana de Trabajo y Trabajadores2667-32312020-11-011Workers Who Produce Industrial Fabrics and Cultivate the Land: Textile Labor, Migrations and Connections between Rural and Factory WorkJuçara da Silva Barbosa de Mello0Felipe Augusto dos Santos Ribeiro1Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, BrazilUniversidade Estadual do Piauí, Brazil This article explores the experiences of migrant workers, many from rural areas, who settled in a major center of the textile industry in Brazil, located in the state of Rio de Janeiro and which housed to four factories. Articulating several historical sources, we seek to understand both the agricultural practices maintained by migrants from the countryside, and the incentives to work in the fields fostered by employers in the factories. In contrast to studies guided by notions of modernization which have crudely linked the manufacturing world to progress as opposed to the agricultural, this article examines how rural and factory labor coexisted in multiple combinations. We argue that the term “roçado operário” (factory worker’s farm), used in many studies, is not enough to describe a far more varied and complex social phenomenon. Therefore, we propose a new framework for understanding the various forms of land use by these workers. https://revista.redlatt.org/revlatt/article/view/6textile workersmigrationrural and factory workweaving identities |
| spellingShingle | Juçara da Silva Barbosa de Mello Felipe Augusto dos Santos Ribeiro Workers Who Produce Industrial Fabrics and Cultivate the Land: Textile Labor, Migrations and Connections between Rural and Factory Work Revista Latinoamericana de Trabajo y Trabajadores textile workers migration rural and factory work weaving identities |
| title | Workers Who Produce Industrial Fabrics and Cultivate the Land: Textile Labor, Migrations and Connections between Rural and Factory Work |
| title_full | Workers Who Produce Industrial Fabrics and Cultivate the Land: Textile Labor, Migrations and Connections between Rural and Factory Work |
| title_fullStr | Workers Who Produce Industrial Fabrics and Cultivate the Land: Textile Labor, Migrations and Connections between Rural and Factory Work |
| title_full_unstemmed | Workers Who Produce Industrial Fabrics and Cultivate the Land: Textile Labor, Migrations and Connections between Rural and Factory Work |
| title_short | Workers Who Produce Industrial Fabrics and Cultivate the Land: Textile Labor, Migrations and Connections between Rural and Factory Work |
| title_sort | workers who produce industrial fabrics and cultivate the land textile labor migrations and connections between rural and factory work |
| topic | textile workers migration rural and factory work weaving identities |
| url | https://revista.redlatt.org/revlatt/article/view/6 |
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