A educação profissional como instrumento de pacificação do conflito de classes no primeiro governo Vargas (1930 – 1945)

Abstract

Using the dialectical historical materialism as analysis method, this work seens to understand how the professional education, during Getúlio Vargas first government (1930 – 1945), was part of the project for cooptation of the working class for political capitalization and, consequently, pacification of the class conflict. For such, starts understanding the government planning for the country’s social situation, specially connected to workers and unions. We analyze the main transformations done by Vargas and his allies to pacify the existing conflicts between 1930 and 1936, specially connected to the world of work e the worker class demands.Then, we verify the educational transformations between 1930 and 1945, among which are the creation of the Health and Education Ministry, Francisco Campos refom, The New Educations Pioneers Manifesto of 1932, 1934 and 1937 Constitutions and the Education Organic Laws of 1942. Finally, concludes with a reflection about the importance of education for the nacional pacification project and how the industrial education, specificaly, is offered for a specific public, the sons of the working class, aiming to keep them in their social stratum.