This article intends to discuss the dimensions that work impressions, memory and heritage can assume through the narratives of the former workers of the Rheingantz Factory, sited in Rio Grande, RS. This plant, founded in the late 19th century, was a foundation for the economy and the urbanization of the this city, as well as a reference and simbolic landmark of the modern Rio Grande. Today, the remainders of that plant are the remains of a past whithin a present tensioned between heritage reivindications and the logic behind the real estate market, in a city that experiences a new cicle of economic growth.
heritage; memory; Rheingantz Factory; work
