Abstract
At the time the social sciences course at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro completes 80 years, this article commemorates two groundbreaking research projects highlighting their repercussion on debates on work and capital, as well as their influence on the institutionalization of the social sciences in Rio de Janeiro. The first one, conducted at the former Institute of Social Sciences in the 1960s under the supervision of Maurício Vinhas de Queiroz, identified for the first time the Brazilian and foreign economic groups established in the country. The second project, directed by Alice Rangel de Paiva Abreu and Elina Gonçalves da Fonte Pessanha, started in the late 1980s with a broad agenda: to disclose the political protagonism of workers, and State intervention ranging into enterprises, as well as to address gender and youth-related questions.
Keywords
Social sciences; Federal University of Rio de Janeiro; memory; research projects; history of social sciences in Rio de Janeiro