This paper announces the questions that guide the research in development that can be summarized as follows: the individual relationships of the first labor sociologists with the hegemonic groups inside university sociology; their integration into other institutes or departments where sociology offered its staff ; the existence of political sanctions that interrupted or deviated their carriers; the probabilities of their exposure to the international circulation of ideas, by means of personal trips abroad or their involvement into international networks; and also their different exposure to the circulation of ideas among and between social classes, particularly in relation to their own research object, the working-classes.
the thematic of labor in brazilian university; sociology of sociology; social history of a generation of labor sociologists; reflexive ethnography of those who study employees