Do Japão ao Brasil : trabalhadores japoneses em São Paulo (1908-1922) / From Japan to Brazil : japanese workers in São Paulo (1908-1922)

AUTOR(ES)

Gustavo Henrique Gomes de Almeida

FONTE

IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

29/02/2012

RESUMO

This thesis analyses Japanese immigration to São Paulo State between 1908 and 1922. This periodization refers to the period when part of the cost of passage was paid by the government, aiming to benefit immigrants who were coming to work in the coffee plantations. Considering the coming of the Japanese as part of the system to obtain a labor force (therefore, a history in which class and class struggle are essential concepts), English social history provides a theoretical basis for the analysis. Specifically, the objective was to investigate immigrant autonomy, the possible of actions and reactions, even when these initiatives occurred in a given social and political context. Therefore this thesis tried to point out how, even in a system in which the labor force was closely controlled, there was in some degree a possibility of immigrants seeking their own interests. To the Japanese, these kinds of actions could be expressed as open revolts or, in more discrete ways, in resistance through everyday actions, for example, going to work on other plantation, seeking better salaries and exchanging information. Those initiatives, more than daily activities, also represented a constant struggle and imposed barriers to the fazendeiros and the Sao Paulo ruling class, especially when multiplied by many immigrants. Workers leaving their jobs affected directly the main goal of the immigration; namely, flooding the labor market to promote lower wages and to undermine collective bargaining. Regarding this situation, the thesis investigates the relation between Japanese immigrants and the ruling class, focusing on acts of open defiance like strikes, and everyday forms of resistance, as the colonos moved away from their birthplaces and coffee plantations, seeking better opportunities and living conditions elsewhere.

ASSUNTO(S)

imigrantes - são paulo (sp) - história japoneses - são paulo (estado) trabalhadores mobilidade espacial immigrants japoneses workers spatial mobility

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