Planejada, para quem? Memórias dos operários na construção de Brasília (1956-1960)

Abstract

The aim of this research was to seek and understand the narratives elaborated by the workers who built the city of Brasília. By expressing their memories, they presented their experiences on the building sites and in the resistance in the face of a process of exploitation and violence to which they were submitted. In this way, they reacted, with resilience, to the determination of their return to the states of origin, staying in the capital and fighting for better living conditions. This work is aligned with a historiography that reconstituted, through memory, the edification, not only of the past, but of social tensions, including the present. From this perspective, the reflections were influenced by a progressive and libertarian tendency and approached of theorists such as Alessandro Portelli, Edward Palmer Thompson and Raymond Williams.