Novas e velhas questões: Revisando a historiografia sobre Volta Redonda (RJ)

Abstract

This paper reviews the literature on the industrial city of Volta Redonda (RJ) and recovers the main topics discussed in over twenty years of academic production. The capital-labor relationship; the modernization ideology of Getúlio Vargas and the consequences of the Brazilian labor laws; the construction of the urban space; changes in Brazilian unionism; and the rise of "neoliberalism", which, along with events like the strike of 1988, the privatization of Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional (CSN) and the demobilization of a labor union project, are dealt with by a literature that follows the trends and changes in Brazilian Social Sciences. This conclusion, along with what has been produced so far, open up a possibility to continue the research agenda and to explore periods of the city that have been little discussed, such as the aftermath of CSN's privatization. © 2010 by Unisinos.