Industry, Family, and Class: The Working-Class Community in Barreiro

Frequently placed on the edges of scientific debate and analyzed in relation to problems or theoretical constructs specific to other social groups, the portrait of the “working-class family” is too often the product of logical deductions and a sort of no-man's land. The research project describ...

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Published in:Journal of family history 1994-01, Vol.19 (3), p.197-212
Main Author: de Almeida, Ana Nunes
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Blue collar workers
Factories
Families & family life
Family Life
Family Work Relationship
History
Industrial Workers
Portugal
Social research
Working Class
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Summary:Frequently placed on the edges of scientific debate and analyzed in relation to problems or theoretical constructs specific to other social groups, the portrait of the “working-class family” is too often the product of logical deductions and a sort of no-man's land. The research project described by the present article concerns factories, working-class groups, and family strategies in Barreiro, a Portuguese industrial town near Lisbon, the Portuguese capital. Special attention is given to reconstructing the industrial experience at a regional level and to the study of workers in the cork and heavy metallurgical industries of Barreiro. The results suggest the internal diversity of the working-class world and two different kinds of linkeage between family and workplace life—the survival strategy of cork workers in the 1920s, and the promotion strategy of the metal workers in the 1950s.
ISSN:0363-1990
1552-5473
DOI:10.1177/036319909401900301