Las casas de la empresa: Paternalismo industrial y Construcción de espacio urbano en Chile. Lota, 1900-1950

Abstract

This paper studies the relationship between paternalism coal industry and construction of urban space in Lota. It seeks to contribute to the identification of paternalistic practices in relation to the worker and the co-option which resulted in the delivery of a room in an urban space under corporate control. For this purpose we analyze the mechanisms that sought to control the lives of the workers and that operated as expressions of bureaucratic paternalism, embracing a character, trying to control the working time and their life outside of the Lota coal workers.