Resumo:
The relocation of the footwear industry to the southwest of Bahia is part of the changes
of the current phase of capitalism. Women workers from this region had no experience
of factory work; this new reality presented itself to them in an impacting manner in that
values, emotions, habits and worldviews were strongly altered, reflecting the new
composition of work at play. Women workers ‘disciplined’ in the assembly line learned
to live as part of a network as a method of organizing production. Paralleling the
development of the production network, another one was being built -, that of
cooperation and communication – giving rise to the emergence of new subjectivities
and forms of resistance in the production environment. From rural and domestic
workers who had no communication and cooperation skills as part of their work,
women workers in the assembly line gained news collaborative and communicative
abilites, fundamental to the production process. But the development of cooperative and
communication relations not only contributed to more productive work activities, but
also promoted the emergence of new forms of resistance and strategies for "escape."
