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América Latina en la historia económica
On-line version ISSN 2007-3496Print version ISSN 1405-2253
Abstract
INOUE, Luciana Massami and GRANDI, Guilherme. The reinvention of paternalism: the Paulista Railway Company between the 1920s and 1940s. Am. Lat. Hist. Econ [online]. 2021, vol.28, n.1, e1084. Epub June 18, 2021. ISSN 2007-3496. https://doi.org/10.18232/alhe.1084.
This paper analyze the business strategy of Companhia Paulista to reinvent paternalistic production relations within the scope of the railway activity in São Paulo between 1920 and 1940. Responsible for establishing a series of control instruments on industrial scale work, railway companies had decisive influence on labor relations, both through its operation activities of transportation service and maintenance of railway material carried out in construction and repair workshops. Among the tools for maintaining the paternalistic logic of production relations in the railway sector, workers’ villages was one of the most effective capital control over labor, due to the impact on the private life and families of railway workers.
Keywords : Paternalism; railway; production relations; railway village; Paulista Railway Company.