Cartographies of the everyday: uses, stories and spatial arrangements in the context of the mining and textile industry of Gran Concepción (1940-1973)

Abstract

The article discusses, from a socio-historical view, the relationships between industrial paternalism and social ties, and their spatial effects. The cases correspond to the textile and coal industry of the city of Concepción 1945 - 1973. The methodology includes collective stories and participatory mapping. Findings concerning the industrial colonization of worker’s daily life are discussed, showing an ideological design of neighbourhoods and leisure management. Both processes strengthen the vertical disciplinary model, innovating with symbolic, emotional and cultural components to a more diffuse control of the working-class.