A cidade, o futebol e o trabalho: memórias do futebol de fábrica - São José dos Campos 1920-2010

Abstract

The objective of this research is to present a new key to reading about the history of SJC city, starting from soccer as a social practice, which always permeates the factory work environment. In an attempt to situate the issue within a general context, it is possible to bring up lived specificities in the city of SJC, with the establishment of the National Politics for Physical Education and Sports and the National Plan for Physical Education and Sports NPPES. It is known that the sport has been used by both the State and the company. The question is to know how the worker meant it in his/her daily life. Soccer becomes, therefore, a starting point for understanding labor relationships in the city and the possibility of new interpretations about life in the factories. Thus, the theoretical formulations were broadened, having as a background the government and institutional projects actually experienced by the workers. The narratives about soccer are themselves agents of subjectivities and reveal significant aspects of memory. Winnings and ties which were narrated by these workers go beyond the soccer game and they are about the game of life, of resentments, of bitterness and of losses, within the four lines, providing other views about life in the city and at work