Old LA AURORA Textile Mill - ABANDONED FACTORY
We visited the former facilities of the La Aurora textile factory, forgotten and abandoned for decades. We reviewed its history and the functions this building served over time.
Part of the FORGOTTEN PLACES URUGUAY SERIES, Episode No. 8
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CREDITS
A production by Leonardo Chouciño
With assistance from German Crappuchett & Ariel Chouciño
Ministry of Housing and Territorial Planning, Special thanks to Fernando Rodríguez
Historical Information Sources
FCS-UDELAR
The world of work through company archives
The case of “La Aurora”
Graciela Sapriza
From Affiliation in Precariousness to Exclusion in the Periphery:
The families who lived in the Martinez Reina home and the influence of eviction and relocation actions on the production of subjectivity.
Belisa Martínez Araujo
Brochure from “La Aurora” National Production Exhibition 1955.
General Catalog of the 1st National Production Exhibition.
Documentation Center of the PIT-CNT (National Confederation of Workers), Héctor Rodríguez Collection, Documents of the Textile Workers' Congress
-Newspaper Archive of the Legislative Branch
-Library of the Legislative Branch
-Library of the Training and Studies Center, Montevideo City Hall
Newspapers Consulted:
El País
Últimas Noticias
La República
Acknowledgments:
Graciela Sapriza
María López, M.A.
Lucía Alonso Varela, M.A.
Noemí Ramírez
Mariangel Solomita
Photos: Conventillo Medio Mundo
Montevideo Photography Center
Advertisement: La Aurora Cooperative
Publication: “Montevideo tu casa” No. 127, May 1994