WORK FRONTS, MEMORY AND EVERYDAY LIFE: EXPERIENCES OF WORKERS ON THE EMERGENCY FRONTS OF THE SERTÃO DA OLD AUGUSTO SEVERO –RN (1979 TO 1984)
Emergency fronts; Augusto Severo; Speeches; Experiences
This research focuses on analyzing the Emergency Fronts in the period from 1979 to 1984 from the speeches conveyed by periodicals and the experiences of rural workers in the Municipality of Augusto Severo/RN, current city of Campo Grande/RN. In this sense, our work aims to make use of a little explored theme of Campograndense historiography, in this way; we seek at first to understand how an erudite historiography was built about the city that is based on an urban ideal, ignoring the countryside, the hinterland and the rural workers in the municipality. For this bias, we sought to problematize how the discourses about the drought and the problems of the fronts took place in the periodicals in circulation in Rio Grande do Norte and, soon after, to understand the tactics planned by the institutions for the fronts, finally, the experiences of the workers and workers. Our analysis is based on the concept of experience proposed by Edward Palmer Thompson (1981). The analyzed documentation is composed of oral and documentary sources, namely: enlisted registration forms; food distribution sheets and attendance control sheets, the newspapers O Poti and Diário de Natal.