The present dissertation studies the productive restructuration in the factories of
ALBRAS and ALUNORTE, situated in the municipal district of Barcarena/PA, and
how the working class movement has put itself against this process, from 1990 to
2005. Through a study of the chronic crisis of the worldwide capitalist economy,
worsened by the two petroleum crash, it attempts to explain how the installation of
two modern factories in the Oriental Amazon, with a working class contingent highly
concentrated. It is emphasized how important is the role of the State to the
achievement of this process. We also analyze how, since the “globalization”
phenomenon – which is a higher stage of the imperialism -, and the new work
organization process – mainly the toyotist model -, the working class movement and
its organizations were put to the proof because of the flexibilization of the work, the
precarization and the subcontraction, which have made difficult the strikes and the
class movements in Brazil and in the world, in the 1990s. Based in bibliographic
material, brochures and interviews with workers and directors of labor unions, the
study evidences that the struggles against the productive restructuration in ALBRAS
was more intense, including the strike mode, than in ALUNORTE, because ALBRAS
was ten years ahead of ALUNORTE and it was the first laboratory of CVRD in the
city of Barcarena. Contradictorily, it was in ALBRAS where occurred the highest
number of dismissals in the studied period, before and after the privatization of
CVRD. The dissertation aims to show the role of the Chemists and Metallurgists
Labor Union in this process of struggles against the productive restructuration in the
factories of ALBRAS and ALUNORTE.
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