Abstract
In this paper we used the outcomes of two researches carried out between 1980 to 1984 and 2012 to 2018 which analyzed, in the same cluster, work trajectories and migration of peasants who left Paraiba State to became workers at the automotive industries in ABC Paulista during the second half of the 20th century, establishing a new objective: to assume the methodological exercise of reviewing the interviews to think about them under the analytical key of masculinities. This issue has emerged from the continuity of the research in recent years besides the interpretive development of the findings we had in hand. The results that the longitudinal analyses which follows these life trajectories, under the effect of a new approach, highlighted some aspects which operate as cleavages within a class of workers, unveiling the ambiguities in self presentation of worker's dignity in a context of intense exploitation.
Keywords:
Memories; Work; Migration; Masculinities; ABC Paulista