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Public History and Militant Identities: Brazilian Unions and the Quest for Memory

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  • Santana, Marco Aurélio
  • Pimenta, Ricardo Medeiros

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The aim of this paper is to analyze how Brazilian trade unions are using social memory as a tool to build up workers' collective identities, in an attempt to fight the fragmentation resulting from the impact of the industrial restructuring of the 1990s. We will draw upon two ongoing programs conducted by the ABC Metal Workers Union (SMABC) and the Oil Workers Union of Brazil's state oil company Petrobras (Sindipetro). The SMABC and Sindipetro have recently been addressing the issue of workers memory with social and public projects. These projects are building up memories, which in spite of being institution-based are also collective, framed by the unions through the use of new types of communication and electronic media.

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  • Santana, Marco Aurélio & Pimenta, Ricardo Medeiros, 2009. "Public History and Militant Identities: Brazilian Unions and the Quest for Memory," International Labor and Working-Class History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 76(1), pages 65-81, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:ilawch:v:76:y:2009:i:01:p:65-81_99
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