Dipartimento Di Scienze Storiche, Geografiche e Dell'antichità Ecole Doctorale D Histoire-211-250
Dipartimento Di Scienze Storiche, Geografiche e Dell'antichità Ecole Doctorale D Histoire-211-250
scullery room and a porch, and measured 105m2. Finally, there were chalets with lateral or
With the exception of collective buildings with dormitories for single workers, all the
housing typologies described above were designed for single-family use. The only
example of collective residence identified by our research program was the apartments
built by the Fábrica de Tecidos São José in the 1940s. There were thirty-two small
apartment buildings: sixteen on the ground floor and sixteen on the first floor. They were
furnished with a front garden and comprised two living rooms, two bedrooms, kitchen,
Finally, apart from housing for laborers and employees, the vila operária generally
also included the house of its founder/owner. These houses presented great variety of
style and size, but they had in common the fact that they stood out either for their
grandeur, esthetics or size and thus constituted significant symbols of power in the town’s
architecture. In Rio Tinto, the house of the Lundgren family – know was Palacete – was
an imposing construction in red bricks that sat astride the hill overlooking the community
below. The exterior was very plain, unadorned, and nearly rustic; there was a fortress-like
quality to it, which was enhanced by its heavy gates. The sober exterior contrasted with
the interior was richly furnished with Italian carpets, chandeliers and decorated tiles
(Panet 2002: 110). In Paulista, the Lundgrens also had an imposing manor in red bricks
called “the Casa-Grande”. It comprised two contiguous buildings dating from different
periods. The first is a one story-house of nearly 400m2 surrounded by porches and built in
the early decades of the twentieth century; the second house was erected later in the
beginning of the 1930s and it was an imposing four-story construction with 1,164 m2.
Adjacent to the Casa-Grande there was a large park, the “Jardim do Coronel”, which used
to be open to the workers on Sundays and hosted a zoo and an amusement park in the
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1940s and 1950s. Like its counterpart in Paulista, the house of José Albino Pimentel,
residential areas and areas for public recreational use, namely the cinema.190 In fact, the
public use of the mill owner’s private residence by workers and their families was not so
unusual in the vilas operárias. Pedro Philomeno Gomes used to grant laborers’ children
access to the swimming pool in his elegant villa located next to the vila operária of the
Fábrica São José in Fortaleza. Opening these spaces that materialized the presence and
the power of the mill owner to laborers were often read as gestures of kindness and
concern for the latter’s well-being and certainly contributed to reinforce paternalistic
bonds.
a series of published papers191, and her work has prompted an academic interest in this
topic in Brazil. In the past years, a number of studies have analyzed aspects related to the
marked its simplicity and it was for the most part deprived of ornaments, restricted to its
essential constructive elements. Unlike the average housing for the underprivileged in the
region, they were generally built with industrially produced materials, particularly bricks
190
Correia (2008: 91-92) provides a thorough analysis of the architecture of this dwelling.
191
See Bibliography for a complete list of references.
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It was common for the “door-and-window” houses to present reliefs around doors
and windows that were accentuated by the painting; this effect was sometimes also
applied to plaster strips on the façades, like in the Vila Yolanda. The most important
ornamental difference within typology appeared in vilas operárias built in urban contexts.
Due to the implementation of the Códigos de Posturas, the use of the platband – a
horizontal strip which frames the top of a building and serves to hide the roof – was
introduced. This element is found is found in the vila operária founded by the Companhia
de Fiaçõa e Tecidos de Pernambuco in the Torre and the in the Vila Diogo in Fortaleza; in
the latter, the houses facing the street present platband, while the ones towards the
Some vilas operárias built in the 1930s and 1940s also carry elements associated
to the Art Déco architectural language. The school building built by the Companhia de
Tecidos Paraibana is one example. The building consists of a regular single block of pure
geometry, on which rises another simple volume with a clock tower; the Art Déco
influence is incorporated in the relief ornaments following a zigzag pattern. In Ceará, the
facades of the houses built by São José mill in Fortaleza adopt simple decorative details
of geometric shapes; in Natal, the facades of the houses of the Jovino Barreto mill have
geometric ornamental designs, inspired by the Art Déco language, set to emphasize the
scaling resulting from the strong sloping of the terrain. In Pernambuco, the Art Deco
vocabulary emerges on the premises of Fábrica Peixe in Pesqueira with its succession of
staggered pediment, in some houses in the vila operária in of the Companhia de Tecidos
Paulista, and in the club of the Cotonificio Othon Bezerra de Mello, marked by the scaling
the façade and other ornamental features. In the Northeast, the most noteworthy use of
the Art Déco esthetics is found in the vila operária of the Companhia Indutrial de Fiação e
Tecidos Goyanna. The Art Déco influence appears simplified and expressed solidarity
with the industrial utilitarianism and the pursuit of an effect of ensemble. These themes
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are expressed in geometrical forms, the use of cylindrical columns, decorative geometric
details of the facades (friezes and marquees), of staggered vertical forms (gables and
parapets in the details), walls with curved surfaces and openings (Correia 2008).
Architectural styles and differentiated materials were often used in the company
towns to mark and highlight the company’s power and thus and contributed to the
promotion of the social order and hierarchy. In Rio Tinto, collective buildings were singled
out by the use of red bricks and the application of ornamental brickwork details on the
façades. In the vila operária of the Companhia de Fiação e Tecidos Goyanna, the mill
owner’s house incorporated and synthesized two different decorative elements used
throughout the town: the cylindrical columns, employed in some buildings, such as the ice
cream parlor and the chalet houses, to denote prestige, and the vertical stripes in relief
used on industrial buildings and workers’ dwellings. It was the only building that presented
this combination which symbolically materialized the industrialist predominance over the
town.
The urban layouts of the vilas operárias were also characterized by their simplicity.
The same notions of economy and rationality that dominated the industrial facilities were
applied to their plans. Even though they presented a great variation, some features were
common to the plans of the vilas operárias, which were guided by a concern of promoting
social control and hygiene. Like the modern habitat, the mill plan also sought to specialize
and hierarchize spaces, establishing appropriate spaces for different activities, separating
work and living areas. The factory was the center of the plan, with its imposing chimneys;
it ruled the space and the life of its residents. They generally presented large non-
constructed areas, like squares or wide streets, which favored the circulation of air and the
services, with simple water and sewage systems.192 The concern with economy was often
translated into standardized plans, deprived of any element deemed superfluous, which
often led to monotony and uniformity, only broken by the singularity of the houses built for
higher-ranking employees and the houses of the mill owners themselves. As we indicated
above, this strategy not only followed an economic rationale, but also aimed at reinforcing
In the Northeast, we have not identified any example of what Crawford (1995)
labeled the “new company town”, that is, settlements that were the fruit of professional
design task, undertaken by architects, landscape architects and city planners.193 The
owners themselves conceived the plans of their towns, sometimes following complete and
conceptually justified urban projects, other times responding to the moment’s needs.194
Even the company town of the Companhia Industrial de Fiação e Tecidos Goyanna, which
presented an interesting application of Art Déco elements, was designed by the mill
owner.
Nevertheless, concerns with esthetics, hygiene, and salubrity were not completely
192
Until the 1930s and 1940s, most company towns in the Northeast did not furnish workers’
dwellings with running water or toilet facilities.
193
At a national level, however, architects and urban planners had already become involved in
company town planning since the second half of the 1930s. A national architectural contest was
held for the Monlevade company town in 1934 promoted by the Companhia Siderúrgica Belgo-
Mineira. Another example was the town designed by the architect Aberlado Caibuí, inspired by the
garden-city movement, in Paraná for the Fábrica de Papel e Celulose Klabin in 1943. For more on
the Monlevade constest, see: Lima, Fábio José Martins de. Cidade Operária de Monlevade: Novos
Conceitos de Morar. Available at: http: //www.docomomo.org.br. Access on 23 March 2013.
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One exception were two groups of houses built in the vila operária of the Fábrica da Torre in
1948 whose design was overseen by the engineer David Litover. (Diário Oficial do Estado de
Pernambuco. Recife, 28 April 1949, p. 1780).
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A Villa Operaria de Camaragibe foi edificada n’um planalto a 25m acima do nível
do mar a pequena distancia da fábrica e 13m acima da explanada d’esta.
O local elevado, em optimas condições hygienicas bem ventilado e favorecendo
o escoamento rapido das aguas torna a villa secca e saudável, discortinando ao
mesmo tempo um bello panorama.
A arborização geral e regular e a proximidade das mattas, que cobrem o resto da
propriedade amenizam os rigores do sol, concorrendo muito para
embelezamento e salubridade da mesma.
Boas estradas e ladeiras suaves offerecerem fácil communição com a fábrica e as
localidades vizinhas.
A construção da villa operaria obedeceu a um alinhamento regular, fugindo
apenas a esta disposição um grupo de casas de taipa edificadas no inicio dos
trabalhos da Companhia, com caracter provisorio e, devendo desaparecer dentro
em breve.
(Companhia Industrial Pernambucana 1908: 23; emphasis added)
Concerns with hygiene were at the very core of the signification of the vila operária
the underprivileged in Brazil. However, this goal seems to have been at times more
present in the rhetoric than in the reality of company-built housing in the Northeast.
In its first report, dating from 1892, the company declared that it was building
“habitações comodas, higienicas e confortaveis” for its employees; these houses were
isolated in the lot and offered all the advantages that the cluttered cortiços could not offer.
The latter, the company stated, were “verdadeiros sepulcros de gente”.195 However, the
Report in 1908 indicates that the construction of mocambos was authorized by the
Company:
195
Companhia Industrial Pernambucana. 1º Relatório, 1892, p. 11. Fundação Joaquim Nabuco:
Carlos Alberto de Menezes Collection, Series Produção intelectual, Folder 10.
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The company’s main concern does not seem to be the substandard housing, but to
The coexistence of “hygienic” houses and the mocambo was, in fact, tolerated in
most company towns. Lopes (1988) pointed out how the Companhia de Tecidos Paulista
for twenty years the company had allowed workers to build small shacks for themselves
that was intensified from the 1930s onwards. The description of Paulista provided by
Elliot’s (1921: 232) indicates that the company not only tolerated, but also tried to obtain
profit from the mocambos, although they were built by the workers:
The majority of the workmen’s dwelllings are built and owned by the company, and
are rented out cheaply, while in some cases modest cottages of sun-dried brick,
thatched with palm or covered with a zinc or tile roof, have been erected by the
workmen themselves, their only obligation to the company being the payment of
ground rent of two to four mil-reis a month, the palm-thatched house paying the
lowest and the zinc-roofed paying the highest.
mocambos for resulting in promiscuity – did not become an issue when the company’s
interests were at stake. In 1944, at the peak of industrial production prompted by World
War II, the Cotonificio Othon Bezerra de Mello established that due to housing shortage,
workers living in houses with more than one bedroom had to allow the cohabitation of
another laborer or leave the house. Those who did not agree to the measure were
2011: 96).
The sanitarian rationale seems to have often been put in second place in order to
196
The Department of Political and Social Order (DOPS), created in 1924, was the Brazilian
government agency, used mainly during the Estado Novo and later the military regime in 1964,
which aimed to control and repress political and social movements opposed to the regime in power.
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their engagement with the reform of the underprivileged classes via the promotion of the
As Stein (1957: 100) highlighted, these company towns of the “golden age”
developed “along the pattern established by the early cotton manufacture” and
trends regarding company town paternalism emerged in the early twentieth century, which
(CIPER). It greatest advocated was the factory’s manager (and minor shareholder) Carlos
Alberto de Menezes, an engineer from Rio de Janeiro who had graduate from the Escola
Menezes was deeply concerned about the “social issue”. He considered, in general, that
at the root of the state of agitation and revolt of the working classes laid the errors of both
industrialists and workers who had moved away from Christian principles and teachings.
são e puros princípios de justiça e caridade, que devem inspirar aqueles que têm a
missão de dirigir homens, seus irmãos, no conseguimento de um trabalho coletivo
qualquer; o princípio de exploração injusta e iníqua do trabalho do homem, como
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Gilberto Freyre pointed out in that Menezes, however, was not “quixotically” alone in his
enterprise: “he worked in collaboration with Antonio Muniz Machado, Pierre Collier, and with the
future federal deputy Luis Correia de Brito (Freyre 1986: 326; first edition in Portuguese in 1957).
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In their turn, in the state of oppression, workers fell into the trap of the
detrimental to both:
To Carlos Alberto de Menezes in Brazil, however, the state of affairs was not yet
as severe as in Europe, due to a series of reasons. First, in Europe the excessive number
of workers had rendered work mere merchandise, subject to the rules of the market and
the law of supply and demand, and therefore depreciated to an extreme. In Brazil, on the
other hand, due to the insufficient number of workers the emerging industry had to
compete for working hands, preventing such devaluation of workers. Second, the great
markets, which regarded initially the quality of products and ultimately their price. Since it
was not always possible to lower prices through the improvement of production
processes, the solution was to exploit the workers by reducing wages to revolting lows,
demanding a very high-quality output, an immoral number of working hours, and the work
shift on Sundays. In Brazil, industrial production was still quantitatively below the demands
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of the consumer market and thus prevented competition between industrialists. Moreover,
he considered that the ignorance and the simple habits of the Brazilian people kept them
in a state of “primitive purity”. “Operario brasileiro não foi ainda trabalhado, pervertido,
Nonetheless, those were merely contingent and accidental causes and therefore
their influential benefits would rapidly be diluted with the aggravation of the antagonisms
that generated the “social issue”. If the Brazilian industrial development had not yet
yielded an wide-ranging and deep social issue as in Europe, the “deprorável situação
moral e material do nosso proletariado” would heat up the situation. “(…) si a situação não
existe, existirá dentro em pouco tempo; o terrivel vírus nos é trazido por muito vehiculos.
vaccina que o torne immune” (Menezes apud Collier 1996: 74; Menezes apud Correia
1998: 32).
Although two major solutions had been offered to the “social issue” – the socialist
path and the Christian path –, Menezes believed only in the second one. Socialism to him
was founded on the subversion of the eternal principles, denying both God and the divine
laws, and hence was “solemnly and formaly” condemned by the Church. The latter, by
contrast, provided the real solution, the “only capable of producing real good and the
effective happiness of laborers”, which was embodied in the Encyclical of Pope Leo XIII
Leo XIII criticized both capitalism for its tendency toward greed, concentration of
person. He was particularly concerned about harmony in society; class should not be
hostile to class, the wealthy and the workingmen were not intended to by nature to live in
mutual conflict. Instead, harmony and agreement could be reached through Christian
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moral and the observation of their respective duties by both classes. For the worker,
obligations included:
Fully and faithfully to perform the work which has been freely and equitably agreed
upon; never to injure the property or to outrage the person, of an employer; never
to resort to violence in defending their own cause, not to engage in riot or disorder;
and to have nothing to do with men of evil principles (…) (Rerum Novarum §20)
And as for those who dealt with the working poor, they had the obligation of caring for
their material and moral well-being. Guided by the Rerum Novarum, Carlos Alberto de
It was thus in this spirit that the CIPER was founded in 1891 with the guiding
principles of the Rerum Novarum incorporated into the company’s goals laid out in its
Statutes:
In Camaragibe this company aim would be translated into a structure built on the
pillars of Christian corporatism. A decisive influence in this project was the experience of
spinning mill of Val-des-Bois, located near Reims in France, managed by the Catholic
entrepreneur Léon Harmel. Trimouille (1974) argued that Harmel’s desire to save workers
though Christianization and moralization was not a very original paternalist perspective;
rather, what rendered Val-des-Bois a “unique social laboratory” was the method proposed
During a trip to Europe in 1892, Carlos Alberto de Menezes met with Léon Harmel,
of whom he had heard and who enjoyed great prestige with the Pope Leo XIII. The
Brazilian entrepreneur visited Harmel’s factory and discussed his plans for the CIPER,
with “still undecided and blurry desires”; Harmel encouraged him and showed him
solutions (Menezes apud Collier 1996: 124). Impressed with what he had witnessed in
France, Carlos Alberto de Menezes decided to adapt that labor management model to his
enterprise. Harmel put him in touch with priest Léon Dehon, founder of the Congregation
of the Priests of the Sacred Heart, which was in charge of the religious assistance in Val-
The friendship between Menezes and Harmel continued throughout the years, as
some of the surviving letters exchanged between them attest. On 4 November 1891,
Harmel wrote : “Pour moi, très excellent ami, je remercie Dieu de m’avoir procuré votre
amitié. Si nous arrivons à implanter le règne de Jésus Christ dans une usine ai Brésil ce
198
A Província. Recife, January 30, 1981, N. 24, p. 8.
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sera la plus grande joie de notre vie. Et c’est vous que l’aurez donné” (Collier 1996: 96);
later on 28 February 1896: “Nous considerons votre fondation comme la fille bien-aimée
du Val-de-Bois. Une fille qui dépassera sa mère quand les années auront accumulées les
actes de dévouement” (Collier 1996: 98). After Menezes passed away in 1904, Harmel’s
interest in Camaragibe motivated him to correspond with Pierre Collier, the former’s son-
The economic and moral organization of the CIPER was thus – in the words of
formado o primeiro grupo de homens formado no espírito cristão, nos animamos a nos
association he referred to was the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul, which he had joined
in 1886.
probably contributed to strengthening the social role that according to Menezes was
reserved for the employers: the paternal protection of their workers in order to promote
their moral education and the social progress. In this regards, Menezes declared at the
Catholic Congress of Bahia: “a tal respeito não se iludam os industriais católicos: nós
temos cargo de almas; nós temos que responder perante Deus por essas almas, como
temos de responder pela alma de nossos filhos. (...) O patronato é uma segunda
Harmel advised Pierre Collier that, in this role as the “head of the proletarian
family”, the main occupation of the employer should be to form their workers by means of
study groups and the management of associations in order to render them more capable
of conducting their own affairs (Collier 1996: 106). It was thus on education and the
structuring element of the company town. This institution stemmed from the associations
that had been founded throughout the years. In January 1895, the Sociedade Cooperativa
de Consumo, and the Associations Associação das Filhas de Maria and Associação dos
Santos Anjos, of economic and religious scope, respectively, were established. Then,
during that same year, the girl’s school, the Musical Club and the Apostolado da Oração
were also founded. In 1896, religious associations geared towards youngsters and boys,
the associations of São Miguel and São Luiz Gonzaga; in 1897, the associations Santana
and Santa Filomena for mothers and girls; finally, in 1899 in 1899, the workers’ Drama
with the exception of the Apostolado da Oração, all the other religious associations
avoided mixing of the sexes and age groups (Aguiar and Lima 2012: 168).
The Corporation took over the execution and the costs of the firm’s social program,
which heretofore had been under the responsibility of the CIPRE, comprising the chaplain,
the chapel, the religious service, the teachers of the schools, the tenements, the medical
services, medication, and as soon as possible, aid in case of prolonged illness and
accidents. To tend to all these obligations, the Corporation was organized into a central
part and two branches: the Sociedade Cooperativa and the Sociedade de Mútuo Socorro.
The central part was in charge of the religious services, the schools, police, cleanliness
and salubrity of the vila operária and leisure (music club, drama club, celebrations). The
Cooperativa maintained a grocery store, a shop, a butcher shop and a bakery. The scope
of the Sociedade de Mútuo Socorro was providing health care, pay allowance in case of
serious and prolonged illnesses and carrying burial expenses (Companhia Industrial
In order to carry out its programs, the Corporation received a yearly subvention of
15:000$000 from the CIPER, contributions from the workers (the equivalent of half day of
work per month and a part of their cooperative bonus) and part of the profits of the
Cooperativa. The corporation was run by a president, the factory manager; a vice-
members, out of which ten were indicated by the president and the remaining ten elected
by the laborers (Companhia Industrial Pernambucana 1908: 29-34; Collier 1996: 138-
139). Even though it was set up as a mean to promote workers’ autonomy, the company’s
preponderant presence in the direction of the Corporation was evident. However, workers’
were also represented at the direction of the factory through the Conselho Profissional
Consultivo, charged with indicating and requesting any measure deemed necessary to
their well-being.
Organization of labor in the Camaragibe factory drank from the fountain of the
Rerum Novarum. To avoid the mixing of the sexes in workshops and factories that could
jeopardize morality and present harmful occasions of evil (§36), in Camaragibe labor
(Companhia Industrial Pernambucana 1908: 36). To ensure the material well-being of the
proletariat (§5, §6), higher-paying positions were preferably given out to fathers of large
households and widows, who had to work to provide for their families. To respect the
authority of the father and his natural role as family provider (§13), the company
established the payment of the family wage system, which pooled the wages of all family
members and handed it over to the father. To take great care that children are not
engaged in industrial work before an adequate development of their bodies and minds
(§42), the workingmen’s children only had the right to join the factory after completing their
primary education. And finally, to ensure the necessary rest which disposes men to turn
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his thoughts to God (§41), the factory worked in shifts of ten hours during the weekdays,
To reach the full extent of his mission, Carlos Alberto de Menezes also considered
that it was important to disseminate the program developed in Camaragibe and to seek to
reproduce its benefits. An important step in this direction was the Catholic Congress of
Pernambuco that convened in Recife during 22-29 June 1902, with a session dedicated to
the “social issue” and its solutions.199 The success of the Congress can perhaps be
measured by the fact the tramway company had to ensure supplementary service during
the days of the event in order to cater to all the attendees.200 The main outcome of the
Gilberto Freyre highlighted the role of the Federação Operária Cristã in the passing of the
representing seven affiliated organizations, together with other fifteen labor organizations,
presented a petition to the Chamber of Deputies in 1904; in the following year, Bahian
deputy Joaquim Inácio Tosta, connected with the Social labor movement since 1900,
reintroduced the ideas of the petition in a bill which eventually became the aforementioned
despite the intensive informative and formative work carried out by Carlos Alberto de
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The second session of the Congress, entitled “Social Works”, proposed the following
conferences: 1) Social issue. The socialist solution and the Christian solution; 2) Christian labor
organization in large-scale industry or isolated factories; 3) Christian labor organization in small
industries or cities; 4) Christian labor organization in agriculture or among rural workers;5) The
Federação Operária Cristão or great general diocesan center. Its organization and foundation. (A
Provincia. Recife, N. 114, May 22, 1902, p. 1).
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A Provincia. Recife, N. 141, June 24, 1902, p. 3.
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Menezes and his partners, the Camaragibe “Catholic corporatism paternalism” did not
gain ground in the Northeast. Associations, clubs and – later – trade unions were
established in different company towns, and the social catholic framework also inspired
industrialists (for example, Gustavo Paiva, director of the Companhia de Tecidos e Fiação
Alagoana), but the level of engagement with the catholic corporatism found in Camaragibe
was not replicated elsewhere; one exception was the CIPER’s Usina Goiana sugar mill,
Interestingly, it was the Companhia de Tecidos Paulista (CTP) that initially flirted
most with Menezes’ teachings, although later it would forge a labor management system
based on the authoritarian control of workers, as we discuss below. The CTP set up a
cooperative on 1 May 1902, through the initiative of the factory’s manager Custódio José
da Silva Pessoa, a disciple of Menezes. The former “prided himself on having risen from
the ranks of the textile workers and being therefore well acquainted with the needs and
aspirations of his former working companions (Freyre 1986: 237). In the beginning of the
inspired by the “Camaragibe model”. Among them, the Associação dos Filhos de São
José held an important place, “dealing with everything related to life of its members”. In its
201
A União Operária. Recife, N. 4, April 10, 1906, p. 1-2.
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The Association also maintained a school for boys, and as the Corporation at the
CIPER, it gave awards to the students that distinguished themselves. Furthermore, the
Filhos de São José de Association was actively involved with the activities of the
It is not clear until when the Association was active. It had been founded in 1902,
before the Lundgren family took control of the CTP, but it still counted with the company’s
financial support after they became major shareholders. We located references to the
functioning of the Association up to the year 1911, when its president James Anderson
passed away. Lopes (1988: 622-623) affirmed that some of the Associations Paulista lived
into the 1930s, but throughout the years the reproduction of a model aiming at a
“bourgeois utopia” crumbled while the concern with the “invention” of a “system of
Behind the discourse of liberation and autonomy of the working classes and of
social harmony in the “Catholic corporatism paternalism” laid the employer’s desire to
determine the paths of the formation of the proletariat, preventing its self-construction as a
class. It did so by regulating workers’ lives inside and outside the factory; rejecting and
weakening social contestation; imposing a model of family and religious practices; and
The project of Carlos Alberto de Menezes and his supporters – part of the
uncivilized. Menezes asserted that the “rebaixamento geral dos espíritos e dos costumes
do nosso proletariado” resulted largely from years of prevalence of the slave regime in
Brazil:
Hence, for Menezes from the institution of slavery, Brazilian workers had inherited
promiscuity, poor health and body strength. And based of these assumptions, the CIPER
laborers. This perspective found wide support among the local elites; Freyre (1986: 327)
echoed the words of geographer and historian Tadeu Rocha in an article published in
1957 affirming that the Usina Goiana had to overcome a series of obstacles to set up its
cooperative and that it was not easy to “bring about this integration of employees, working
as he was with a very ignorant rural proletariat barely emerged from slavery and still
imbued with all the vices of that institution.” Workers’ resistance to the imposition of labor
management strategies that dismissed their traditions, system of values and habits,
paternalism”.
labor management strategies implemented in the company towns of Paulista, Rio Tinto
and Pedra, which constitute perhaps the company-induced settlements more strongly
Paulista and Rio Tinto were cotton spinning and weaving mills controlled by a
factory had been founded in 1891 in the state of Pernambuco, but it was when it came
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under the control of the Lundgrens in 1904 that it began to flourish; the latter was pre-
planned company town founded ex nihilo in Paraíba in 1917 and inaugurated 1924. They
stood out due to their dimensions: set within areas of approximately 240 km2 and 600 km2
and achieving a number of approximately 6,000 and 2,600 company houses, respectively.
Despite not equaling the size of the aforementioned industrial settlements, the town of
Pedra, home to the Agro Fabril Mercantil, a cotton thread factory, was also a noteworthy
experience that attracted much attention in Brazil. Pedra was built in 1913 in the dry
different moments. In the Lundgren company towns, as we indicated before, its framework
of action was defined during the period 1930-1940; the social project in Pedra, on the
other hand, was a short-lived experience that disappeared together with its founder,
Rule in these company towns were built upon the foundations of systems of
traditional politics built upon oligarchic and personalized power structures (Carvalho 1999:
133). In the Northeast, mandonismo has generally identified with the socio-political
phenomenon of the coronelismo, which gained ground during the First Republic and
persisted for decades. A body of literature has acknowledged this phenomenon as the
result of a compromise between local political bosses – the colonels202 – and the
202
The term “Colonel” was often employed in Brazil to refer to important people. Its use came from
the colonial order when wealthy “homens bons” required military honors backed by the justification
of having carried out "war services". The high military patents they were granted did not furnish
them with wages or training, but they legitimized their power and ensured them privileges. Later,
the creation of the Brazilian National Guard contributed to extend the use of the word to denote the
powerful chiefs of rural areas. This paramilitary force recruited members among the most
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government (state and federal): the colonel maintained his base of domination in small
provided the government with electoral support.203 Though its roots could be found in the
past colonial practices, the coronelismo stemmed from the superposition of developed
was an adaptation of the overreaching Brazilian private instances of power to the new
federative republican regime (Leal 2012: 43). Roniger (1987: 74) summed up the
dynamics it assumed:
As the government adopted liberal institutions during the “Old Republic” (1889-
1930) and developed parliamentary politics on the basis of a narrow but expanding
franchise, political clientelistic networks emerged around the so-called coroneis
(“colonels”). The latter bargained with political forces at the regional and state-
capital levels, handing over the votes they controlled in exchange for access to
office-holders and concomitant benefits like jobs, health and credit facilities, and
exemption from regulations. The coroneis thus could offer various services and
commodities for fostering positions of social and political authority as well as
diffuse relationships with followers at municipal and regional levels. Within their
sphere of influence, coroneis could obtain jobs, lend money, secure lawyers and
influence judges, "persuade" witnesses, prevent the police from confiscating their
clients' weapons, legalize land rights, grant fiscal exemptions, settle interpersonal
disputes, act as godfathers, and give recommendations.
established between landowners and their rural workers and tenants, as Domingos (2000:
prestigious and wealthiest local patriarchs, who then formed their own corps. Hierarchy followed
the socioeconomic structure with the Colonels were at the top. After the extinction of the National
Guard in 1922, the title was still used by the population to set apart those who had great political
and economic power.
203
A thorough examination of the phenomenon of coronelismo is beyond the scope of this
research, as our interested in limited to the light it can shed to better understand paternalistic
relations in the company towns of the Northeast. For more on coronelismo, see Victor Nunes Leal’s
classic Coronelismo, enxada e voto: o município e o regime representativo no Brasil, first published
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Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, 1998.
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4) indicated the term coronelismo has been widely applied to forms of reproduction of
power involving diverse administrative spheres, geo-economics areas and social relations
In a word, the “colonel” was someone who, for different reasons, was considered to
Thus, not surprisingly, Frederico and Arthur Lundgren, as well as Delmiro Gouveia,
bore the title of “coronel”. If at the time, it was a sign of prestige and respect, later when
Levine (1978: 11) described the Lundgren brothers as “urban coronéis” it was not in the
same spirit. What the scholar wanted to highlight was the authoritarian and the clientelistic
nature of relations in their company town, which we look into further below.
historically dated phenomenon and the over-application of the concept has weaken its
heuristic value. Nevertheless, parallels can be traced between these phenomena situated
We derive many of our notions of the convergences between the coronelismo and
the Authoritarian paternalism from Dantas (1987). Challenging the idea that the main
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source of power of the colonel always laid in the control over a great number of voters,
Dantas (1987) considered the phenomenon to be set on a threefold base: the relations of
personal domination exerted by the landlords over peasants; the discourses and symbols
that reaffirm those bonds of loyalty and submission; and the colonels’ role as middle men
company towns was the first element that configured the “authoritarian paternalism”.
Despite using similar strategies, the aim of this rule was not exactly the same in Pedra
and Paulista and Rio Tinto. In the Lundgren’s factories, concern was mainly directed
towards fostering industrial discipline in workers and to quieting down social and political
contestation in view of the large workforce they had to manage. In Pedra, while the
discipline factor was, of course, still central, it was backed up by a broader agenda of
social reforms.
The isolation of the company towns was an initial key strategy to ensure this
control over those spaces. In Pedra it was imposed by its location far from the coastal
urban centers, while in Paulista and Rio Tinto the vast land surrounding the factories
belonging to the Lundgrens served to isolate the towns. Furthermore, to reinforce their
“closed town” nature, the central areas of the towns were enclosed by fences with a
checkpoint at the entrance, enabling careful monitoring and screening of those who were
granted access. Setting foot and staying in the company towns naturally depended on the
approval of the colonels. A well-known episode that took place in Rio Tinto involving
Frederico Lundgren and one of his employees is indicative of such control. In 1931,
Frederico became aware that a certain Mr. Sales was spreading around “talks” of
founding a trade union; the worker was immediately summoned to the boss’ office and
addressed in the following terms: “Mr. Sales, I am the union! I am the captain of my
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workers! I know the needs of the workers! I created all this, Mr. Sales!” He was then fired,
received some money for his travel expenses and also a warning: “As long as Frederico
João Lundgren has any business in Rio Tinto, do me the special favor of never again
coming close to the border of Rio Tinto!” (Fernandes 1972: 119-121). Of his visit to Pedra,
the famous Brazilian writer Graciliano Ramos also recorded that the factory and the vila
operária were surrounded by barbed wire and that government agents, municipal
employees, police officers stopped at the gate because they were not required due to the
“excessive” order that reigned in the town (Ramos 1969). Ramos’ assertion inadvertently
points to the total authority colonels’ had in the towns, managing them as “private
fiefdoms” (Crawford 1995: 30), to the extent that they could even obstruct or undermine
public authority.
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Company towns are the product of their owner’s hope that shaping the buitk
environment in particular ways would allow them to reach certain political, economic,
social and moral goals, whether there were greater control of the workforce, implementing
certain types of labor management relations or providing their workers with better housing
Our reseach examined the development of company towns in the Northeast region
of Brazil from the second half of the nineteeth century to the present-day. These
scholarship, and this research sought address this gap by situating company towns in the
broad explanatory framework of the regional, social, industrial and labor contexts in which
stages of industrial development, combining the specific conditions under which the
Brazilian society, we examined their phases of development. The main stages of their
development were identified according to the responses to the different economic and
social conjunctures.
We also examined the differences between the terms employes to describe the
company-bulilt settlements in Brazil – the “vilas operárias” and “company towns” in the
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and positive archetypes for the working classes of Brazil and particularly in the Northeast.
town in the Northeast, aiming to identify its structuring features. This yielded a complex
panorama of might constitute a regional model. Future research is now necessary to place
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