Trabalho e resistência: um olhar sobre a classe trabalhadora do Vale do Jequitinhonha a partir do Jornal Geraes

Abstract

Work plays a central role in the production of human social space, since it is necessary for the production and reproduction of life. Therefore, understanding the reality of workers in a given space, at a given time, is essential to uncover what is behind the socio-spatial inequalities of the present time. Starting from these positions, this research aimed to understand the reality of the working class in Vale do Jequitinhonha, presented in Jornal Geraes, starting from the position that the aforementioned newspaper placed itself in a historical position of support for workers in the region. The definition of working class used came from an expanded view of the concept, both the Sociology of Work and the Geography of Work call it the class-that-lives-from-work, this seeks understanding not only from the particularities of the experiences of the trades , but of an ontological universality that encompasses the most diverse categories of workers, which is the objective reality of having only their workforce as a way of guaranteeing their existence and social reproduction. The time frame of this work takes place in the middle of the period of the Business-Military Dictatorship, which also precedes this research, a deep historiographical dialogue and documentary analysis of the period to understand the political situation that the Newspaper and the Workers were experiencing, such dialogue enriched The research also brought to light documents from the National Information Service (SNI) about the Jequitinhonha Valley region which, as far as we know, had not yet been discovered. The methodological procedures of this research were bibliographic and documentary analyses, having historical materialism as a theoretical-methodological basis, which can also be called historical-geographical materialism.