Flaskô, uma trincheira da luta de classes no Brasil: balanços e perspectivas de uma fábrica ocupada entre os meandros do capitalismo tardio

• Ano de defesa: 2025
• Autor(a) principal: Romito, Gabriel Augusto
• Orientador(a): Dias, Luiz Antonio
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Pós-Graduação em História
• Departamento: Faculdade de Ciências Sociais
• País: Brasil
• Palavras-chave em Português: Controle operário; Neoliberalismo; Luta de classes; Autogestão
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Workers’ control; Neoliberalism; Class struggle; Self-management
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::HISTORIA
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.pucsp.br/jspui/handle/handle/45482

This thesis aims to analyze and critically examine the issue of workers’ control over production, based on the experience undertaken by the workers of Flaskô, a chemical industry located in Sumaré-SP, between 2003 and 2018. Employing an ontopractical methodological approach, the research investigates how the workers reorganized industrial production following the bankruptcy of the company. Despite the constraints imposed by technological obsolescence, the selectivity of the judiciary, and the advance of neoliberalism, the Flaskô experience revealed concrete forms of confronting unemployment and radicalizing democracy in the workplace. Additionally, it fostered a redefinition of territory through the creation of the Vila Operária e Popular (Workers’ and People’s Village). The central questions guiding this study were: How could a factory be managed through the rejection of an employer-based system without reverting to the logic of a cooperative? In what ways did the political subjects of this historical experience perceive and constitute themselves as a class in the face of capitalist contradictions? And finally, what material and symbolic legacy do these workers leave after fifteen years of continuous occupation? Based on bibliographical discussions, semi-structured interviews, and open dialogues, this study—situated at the intersection of culture, political economy, and labor—aims to grasp the general characteristics found in the plurality of working-class struggles through the dialectical interfaces that unfold over time between the singular and the universal. In this regard, Flaskô bequeaths a living example of workers’ resistance, whose pedagogy may inspire new forms of popular organization, reaffirming the centrality of labor and class struggle as the driving force of history