Produção Nacional
O fim de uma company town: do processo de estatização às manifestações dos trabalhadores da Southern Brazil Lumber and Colonization Company (1940-1956)
2017; UNIVERSIDADE ESTADUAL DE PONTA GROSSA; Volume: 22; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.5212/rev.hist.reg.v.22i1.0006
ISSN1414-0055
AutoresSoeli Regina Lima, Alexandre Assis Tomporoski,
Tópico(s)Rural Development and Agriculture
ResumoThe present work analyses the nationalization process of the Southern Brazil Lumber and Colonization Company, popularly known as Lumber Sawmill and the consequent workers manifestations.Being the biggest sawmill of South America, in the beginning of the 20 th Century, it implanted a company town in the city of Três Barras-SC.In 1940 the Sawmill was nationalized.In that phase the administration was subordinated to the Superintendence of Union Incorporated Enterprises which invested in the production as well as in the infrastructure of built patrimony.In 1952 the company was transferred to the Army Ministry.There were years of indecision concerning the future of workers and delays in payment.The manifestations for working rights happened via mail and meetings with government representatives.For this research the following sources were consulted: written press, documents of legal order, correspondence from the Superintendence of Union Incorporated Enterprises, semi-structured interviews and bibliographic referential.It was concluded that the workers organization added to the political representation interests and the press participation contributed for the solution of the working crisis.Many workers migrated to other cities and the local economy started to decline.When the final decision about the working situation came out, in 1956, from the 809 workers in the sawmill in 1943, only 37 remained, who opted to stay in their functions in the War Ministry, and 136 who "spontaneously" decided to resign.
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