A linha que trama a vida é a mesma que traça o desenho: história e memória da estamparia na Ferreira Guimarães em Juiz de Fora no século XX

Abstract

This dissertation is the result of research into the contributions of Textile Company Ferreira Guimarães to the city, highlighting its history in the textile trajectory of ―Manchester Mineira‖ and what was in terms of memory and memory for the cultural patrimony of Juiz de Fora. When making a historical survey on the Ferreira Guimarães, seeks to know the data since its implementation in architectural complex that formerly belonged to the British Factory and Industrial Mineira, firms that preceded the appearance of the company in Juiz de Fora. Reflecting on the importance assumed by the company in the city and to participate in social life of those who had some kind of relationship with this textile company, especially if the intention is to focus on the period after the closing of the first factory in 1995, up disabling factory and almost all industrial complex belonging to it, recording the impact of bankruptcy on juiz-forana society. Taking care to mark the importance of the company in local social imaginary of both the employees and society as a whole, we conclude the thesis with emphasis on legacy as equity for the city, including the analysis of material and immaterial aspects of elements its history. Translating these relationships over time and the people who had their trajectories linked somehow to the Company's history, making this story of the history of their lives, seek to record, through an approach of social history, the possibility of such relationships through "ways to remember", by focusing on different forms of representation of memory. Seeks to identify the memory of that time lived and their mark on history from the perspective of a company.