Redescobrir - história e memória do serviço social do comércio: narrativas das(os) trabalhadoras(es) do Sesc São Paulo

Abstract

What justifies the realization of this thesis is the fact that, for 21 years working at Sesc São Paulo, I have followed the trajectory of the Social Service of Commerce and to understand it, one starts from the assumption that it is necessary to rescue its history and its memory in the historical process. I felt the need to revisit the history of the Social Service of Commerce - Sesc and rebuild it collectively, through the praxis of the workers expressed in the narratives at different historical moments and different insertions in the staff that develop and developed work in the social area of the institution. In this perspective, the general objective is to study the history and memory of the Social Service of Commerce, in the historical period between 1966 and 2022, to rediscover, through institutional documents, photographs, newspapers, publications and narratives of the workers of Sesc São Paulo the trajectory built by the institution throughout this period. Among its specific objectives, the following stand out: to reflect on the importance of history and memory for the reconstruction of the trajectory of the Social Service of Commerce - Sesc São Paulo; identify in the praxis of the workers the materialization of the story expressed in the narratives, considering the intrinsic relationship between memory and history, as well as contributing to the reconstruction of the memory of Sesc São Paulo; and, to unveil the importance of the work carried out by Social Workers at Sesc São Paulo, from 1966 to 2022. The thesis has the contributions of Walter Benjamin as a philosophical reference and, from a methodological point of view, is based on historical-dialectical materialism, from the categories totality, historicity and contradiction, trying to understand the Sesc as an institution inserted in the historical process. With regard to the research methodology, we opted for the Oral History work by Alessandro Portelli. In reading for Social Work, having participated in these three years at the Center for Studies and Research on Identity – NEPI, at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, coordinated by Professor Maria Lúcia Martinelli, a space in which I carried out different readings and reflections and from there, I chose oral history, because I understand this choice as a political option, of exchange between researcher/researched, of trust, of subjectivities, of reports of experiences, facts, projects, aspirations and events, because reality is inexhaustible