Controlled dispatch of selected staff to factories abroad in the years 1938--1941 played an important role in the history of Bata Shoe Company. Due to that fact the company man-aged to preserve civilian character of the production despite the on-going Second World War. The organizing of the whole process was not a simple task, it was necessary to harmonize actions of several organizational units. The selection of certain employees eligible for the transfers to foreign countries was conducted by sophisticated methodology, but still some of the top manager's decisions were quite controversial. First of all it involved the transfers of Jewish employees, because Chairman of the Board Jan Antonin Bata considered himself to be the rescuer of the Jews. Nevertheless top managers of the group were strictly pragmatic even in this matter and it is difficult to deduce that one of the objectives of the controlled staff transfers was the protection of this national minority. We can see the same rational approach to employees of the German origin. One of the unexplained questions is the Jan Antonin Bata's unclear relationship with Nazi leaders. I tried to deal with all of these questions in this thesis and I tried to contribute to the current debate about the Bata Group's activities during the Second World War.

This thesis is devoting to the history Batas city Batanagar, what was founded in India in 1934. The young managers, who passed the training in the Bata company in Zlín and at the beginning of thirties they left Czechoslovakia to India, were working there. Some families came back to Czechoslovakia after 1948, some stayed in India and some left the country to Canada or Australia. The author of thesis is focusing on memories of the children of Batas managers, who lives in Czech Republic now.

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The aim of this thesis was to try to analyse data available on the potential impact of unrealized transport project (called Baťova dálnice) in Czechoslovakia. The study area selected was limited to area of today´s Czech Republic. The data available were processed in geographic information systems and analysis of accessibility were created for predefined regional centres. Analysis of economic impact on economically active population caused by this project was also created while considering current route of existing main D1 motorway. The results of these analysis were compiled into well-arranged maps. Based on these results a conclusion was made that construction of Bata motorway did not mean such a difference for the accessibility of the regional centres as it could have had if it was routed in a different way. Same problem occurs in the results of the economic impact analysis in which when compared to D1 motorway, Bata motorway did not reach the same values as the D1 did.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:32:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2010-02-25Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:23:40Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 ziliani_jc_dr_assis.pdf: 1958488 bytes, checksum: a43bf7d302f997e783ba65312867d6bd (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Este trabalho busca analisar a primeira metade do século XX, período em que são implementados projetos de colonização dirigida, os quais fizeram parte dos dispositivos para a construção do Estado Nacional nos espaços dos sertões, considerados como espaços “vazios”. Num primeiro momento procura analisar os discursos que tiveram o papel de construir representações sobre os espaços dos sertões, dando-lhes visibilidade, de modo a convertê-los em espaços identificados e utilizáveis. O objeto privilegiado na pesquisa, para encontrar o funcionamento daqueles dispositivos, é uma companhia particular, a Companhia de Viação São Paulo Mato Grosso, que atuou e teve seus negócios no Oeste de São Paulo e Sul do Estado de Mato Grosso, entre os anos 1908, ano da criação da referida Companhia e o ano de 1960, quando seus projetos de colonização se estagnaram. A trajetória da Companhia está dividida em três períodos, destacando-se o terceiro por ser aquele em que os projetos de colonização efetivamente ocorreram, com a presença e participação de um personagem, que o tornou singular, o imigrante de origem tchecoslovaca Jan Antonin Bata, que transformou a Companhia na Organização Bata no Brasil. Os projetos de colonização incorporaram espaços do território brasileiro, espaços que antes eram considerados sertão inóspito, fazendo surgir dezenas de cidades naquelas regiões, bem como favorecendo sua integração à economia nacional, configurando-os como espaços do exercício do poder de controle do Estado Brasileiro. Como referenciais de apoio utilizaram-se aqueles do campo da História Cultural. A pesquisa conclui que partes significativas dos espaços do Oeste de São Paulo e da região Sul de Mato Grosso... / This work intents to analyze the first half of 20th century , period when projects of directed colonization was implemented, which had been part of the devices for the construction of the National State in the spaces of the remote interior, considered as “empty” spaces. At a first moment it searches to analyze the speeches that had the play of to build the representations about the spaces of the remote interior, giving to them visibility, in behavior to convert them into identified and usable spaces. The privileged object in the research, to find the functioning of those devices, was a particular company, the Companhia Viação São Paulo-Mato Grosso, that acted and had its businesses in the West of São Paulo and South of the State of Mato Grosso, between the years 1908, year of the creation of the related Company and the year of 1960, when its projects of colonization stagnated. The trajectory of the Company is divided in three periods, which the third one is the most important because in that one the colonization projects had effectively occurred, with the presence and participation, of a personage, who became it singular, the immigrant of Tchecoslovaca origin Jan Antonin Bata, who transformed the Company into the Bata do Brazil Organization. The settling projects had incorporated spaces of the brazilian territory, spaces that before were considered inhospitable hinterland, making to appear sets of ten of cities in those regions, as well as integrating them it the national economy, configuring them as spaces of the exercise of the power of control of the Brazilian State. As referential of support was used those of the area of Cultural History. The research concludes that significant parts of the spaces of the West of São Paulo... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)

This diploma thesis describes the expansion of the Czechoslovak Bata shoe company to India. A foundation stone of Batanagar, Bat'a's city, was laid near Calcutta on October 28, 1934. Since then, the community of Czechoslovak expatriates evolved to an almost self-sufficient city known throughout Bengal and India. Because the majority of employees were Indians, there was a lively cultural contact between them and the Czech expatriates. The main part of the thesis focuses on the description of the common life of the Czechoslovakians in Batanagar - Bat'a's employees sent from Zlín during the period from 1934 to 1950. In India, many Czechoslovakian children grew up in this international environment, because women or the extended family of Czechoslovakian men later followed them here. New couples also celebrated their weddings in Batanagar. Due to the outbreak of World War II, Bat'a's employees did not return home for many years, and from India they organized their own resistance activities.

The thesis titles "The educational system in school of Tomas Bata" that is engaged in business and vocational education since the nineteen twenties by Bata in Zlin. Bata's educational system is described in the economic and social context and analyzes the demographic, economic, business, geographical and technical factors of that time, which has been proved to be crucial for its creation. The thesis also identifies the ideological sources of business education - corporate educational systems in the USA (operated in companies of Henry Ford and Milton Herschey) and focused on reasons for successful transfer of these overseas models into the environment in former Czechoslovakia. It also analyzes the major goals that the introduction of corporate training companies pursue. The thesis also deals with the different kinds of Bata School, describes their genesis and the relationship to the state education system. It describes in detail the development of the experimental schools in Zlin region and its organization, including training programs. The thesis also includes an analysis of the Bata social program that touches all sectors and activities in which Tomas Bata in the course of his life was involved. Keywords: enterprise education, vocational training, educational system, Bata education, experimental...

The content of this diploma thesis is an urban study with the architectural details of the former Bata Industrial Park in Partizánske, and a particular conversion program for the building. My goal was to find a suitable concept for converting building no. 61 with respect to the city, to the people living in it, and to reintegrate into the life of a building that is empty today, unused and dilapidated. The goal was not to forcefully fill the functions of the building, but in successive steps and phases to find a solution how to reuse the building and to point to the factory as a element of the city's foundation and also to highlight the unique architecture of the Baťa period.

Idealizado como uma \"cidade industrial ideal\", o antigo núcleo industrial de Batatuba, situado no município de Piracaia (SP, Brasil), é praticamente invisível na historiografia das realizações urbanísticas no Brasil, embora em seu projeto sobressaiam seu caráter social e sua filiação ao pensamento moderno. Batatuba integrara um programa internacional de cidades destinado a concretizar, arquitetônica e urbanisticamente, a expansão mundial da Companhia calçadista Bata, que se iniciara e florescera no entreguerras. Ainda que emissárias dos princípios da racionalidade e eficiência de Taylor e Ford, as ações dos dirigentes da Companhia - inicialmente as de seu fundador, Tomas Bata (1876-1932, chamado de Henry Ford da Europa Central) e depois as de Jan Antonin Bata (1898-1965) - contribuíram para inaugurar novas referências nos campos do planejamento urbano e territorial, da organização industrial e das relações de trabalho naquelas décadas. O núcleo industrial de Batatuba fora iniciado por Jan Antonin Bata por volta de 1940, sendo possível notar a permanência, tanto no desenho de sua planta urbana, quanto nos remanescentes atuais, do \"vocabulário\" urbanístico replicado nas \"cidades-em-série\" da Companhia. Assim, não seria gratuita a flagrante semelhança do plano de Batatuba com outros planos para uma cidade industrial ideal, como Batovany-Partizanske (atual Eslováquia). Durante a expansão internacional da empresa nos anos 1930 este vocabulário desenvolvera-se gradualmente em Zlín (atual República Tcheca), então a cidade-sede da Companhia Bata, e por meio de seu escritório de arquitetos, sendo a base desta linguagem a racionalidade no uso de materiais e técnicas construtivos e a padronização e reprodutibilidade. Esta orientação se expressou nos planos urbanos, onde os bairros residenciais revelavam a preferência pelo modelo da cidade-jardim e o lema de Tomas Bata \"Trabalhar coletivamente e viver individualmente\". Aspecto fundamental desta evolução foi a aproximação da empresa com os arquitetos dos CIAM (Congressos Internacionais de Arquitetura Moderna) e alguns de seus expoentes, como Le Corbusier, atraídos pelo ideário social, arquitetônico e urbanístico da Companhia e pelas possibilidades projetuais proporcionadas pelo porte global desta. Elemento de ruptura desta evolução, a Segunda Guerra Mundial representou uma inflexão no modus operandi da Companhia. Por volta de 1940, Jan Antonin Bata iniciou nova etapa nos negócios, adquirindo no Brasil, onde passou a residir definitivamente, as empresas Companhia de Viação São Paulo - Mato Grosso e Companhia Comercial Alto-Paraná. Nesta fase as ações de Jan Bata adquiriram nova tonalidade. Com suas empresas, participa do desbravamento do oeste paulista e do sul do então Mato Grosso, planejando e fundando cidades e núcleos de caráter agroindustrial: Vila CIMA (Companhia Industrial, Mercantil e Agrícola), Mariápolis, Bataguassu, Batayporã, Kennedyba - intentando, afinal, contribuir para incorporar os \"espaços vazios\" de Vargas à economia brasileira. No que se refere às realizações arquitetônicas e urbanísticas, a fase brasileira de Jan Bata, por sua quase total ausência na historiografia, ainda carece de melhor conhecimento e análise. Este trabalho pretende distinguir esta fase - situada entre os anos de 1940 e 1965 - e relacioná-la com as cidades da Companhia Bata criadas durante os anos do entreguerras (1918-1940). Busca analisar, preliminarmente e à luz do Movimento Moderno e das questões locais, em que medida aquela constância programática exercida pela Companhia, no planejamento da vida coletiva, do trabalho e da produção industrial, de expressão urbanística e de cunho econômico, foi seguida no ambiente brasileiro sendo preservada ou reinventada. / Idealized as an \"ideal industrial city\", the old industrial core of Batatuba, located in Piracaia (SP, Brazil) is virtually invisible in historiography of urban achievements in Brazil - although its project manifests a social character and an ascendancy of modernist thinking. Batatuba had integrated an international cities\' program aimed to materialize in architectonic and urban ways the global expansion of Bata footwears company, which began and flourished during the 1920-1930 decades. Although reiterating Taylor\'s and Ford\'s rationality and efficiency principles, the actions of Bata Company\'s directors (the first, Tomas Bata, 1876-1932, so-called \"Henry Ford of Central Europe\", and afterwards, Jan Antonin Bata, 1898-1965) added to inaugurate new references on urban and territorial planning, industrial organization and labor relations in those decades. The industrial core of Batatuba had been launched by Jan Antonin Bata by 1940, and its possible to notice the persistence of urban vocabulary replicated in the companys serial-cities, even in its urban plan and in its remaining buildings. In this sense, it wouldn\'t be a coincidence the clear similarity between Batatuba\'s plan and others Bata\'s \"ideal industrial city\", such as Batovant-Partizanske (Slovakia). During the company\'s international expansion during the 1930s that vocabulary had been gradually developed by Bata\'s architects in Zlín (Czech Republic nowadays, then the host city of the Company). Rationality in material\'s use and construction techniques, standardization and reproducibility turned into the basis of that language. Those orientations were expressed in urban plans, where residential neighborhoods revealed the preference for a garden-city model and for Tomas Batas motto: \"Working collectively and living individually.\" An important feature of that development was the company\'s approach to CIAM\'s (International Congresses of Modern Architecture) and some of its exponents - such as Le Corbusier, attracted by Bata\'s social, urban and architectonic ideas and by the possibilities offered by company\'s global extents. Second World War represented a collapse on that evolution and a shift in Bata\'s modus operandi. By 1940, Jan Antonin Bata started a new stage in his business, buying in Brazil - where he would live definitively the Road Company Sao Paulo-Mato Grosso and the Alto Paraná Commercial Company. At this stage, Bata\'s actions acquired new hues. With his companies, he participates in the profiteering of the West of São Paulo and Southern of the old Mato Grosso States, planning and founding cities and urban cores marked by an agro-industrial character: Vila CIMA (Industrial, Commercial and Agricultural Company Town), Mariápolis, Bataguassu, Batayporã, Kennedyba searching for, at least, contribute to incorporate the Brazilian empty spaces to national economy during Vargas years. In relation to urban and architectural achievements, the Brazilian phase of Jan Bata - by its almost complete absence in historiography - still needs better understanding and analysis. This paper aims to distinguish this stage - located between the years 1940 and 1965 - and relate it to Bata\'s cities created during the interwar years (1918-1940). Besides, this paper searches for analyze - preliminarily and under local issues and Modern Movements focus in which terms that programmatic constancy featured by Bata\'s (on planning collective life, work, industrial production in urban and economic ways) would been maintained or reinvented in Brazil.

Idealizado como uma \"cidade industrial ideal\", o antigo núcleo industrial de Batatuba, situado no município de Piracaia (SP, Brasil), é praticamente invisível na historiografia das realizações urbanísticas no Brasil, embora em seu projeto sobressaiam seu caráter social e sua filiação ao pensamento moderno. Batatuba integrara um programa internacional de cidades destinado a concretizar, arquitetônica e urbanisticamente, a expansão mundial da Companhia calçadista Bata, que se iniciara e florescera no entreguerras. Ainda que emissárias dos princípios da racionalidade e eficiência de Taylor e Ford, as ações dos dirigentes da Companhia - inicialmente as de seu fundador, Tomas Bata (1876-1932, chamado de Henry Ford da Europa Central) e depois as de Jan Antonin Bata (1898-1965) - contribuíram para inaugurar novas referências nos campos do planejamento urbano e territorial, da organização industrial e das relações de trabalho naquelas décadas. O núcleo industrial de Batatuba fora iniciado por Jan Antonin Bata por volta de 1940, sendo possível notar a permanência, tanto no desenho de sua planta urbana, quanto nos remanescentes atuais, do \"vocabulário\" urbanístico replicado nas \"cidades-em-série\" da Companhia. Assim, não seria gratuita a flagrante semelhança do plano de Batatuba com outros planos para uma cidade industrial ideal, como Batovany-Partizanske (atual Eslováquia). Durante a expansão internacional da empresa nos anos 1930 este vocabulário desenvolvera-se gradualmente em Zlín (atual República Tcheca), então a cidade-sede da Companhia Bata, e por meio de seu escritório de arquitetos, sendo a base desta linguagem a racionalidade no uso de materiais e técnicas construtivos e a padronização e reprodutibilidade. Esta orientação se expressou nos planos urbanos, onde os bairros residenciais revelavam a preferência pelo modelo da cidade-jardim e o lema de Tomas Bata \"Trabalhar coletivamente e viver individualmente\". Aspecto fundamental desta evolução foi a aproximação da empresa com os arquitetos dos CIAM (Congressos Internacionais de Arquitetura Moderna) e alguns de seus expoentes, como Le Corbusier, atraídos pelo ideário social, arquitetônico e urbanístico da Companhia e pelas possibilidades projetuais proporcionadas pelo porte global desta. Elemento de ruptura desta evolução, a Segunda Guerra Mundial representou uma inflexão no modus operandi da Companhia. Por volta de 1940, Jan Antonin Bata iniciou nova etapa nos negócios, adquirindo no Brasil, onde passou a residir definitivamente, as empresas Companhia de Viação São Paulo - Mato Grosso e Companhia Comercial Alto-Paraná. Nesta fase as ações de Jan Bata adquiriram nova tonalidade. Com suas empresas, participa do desbravamento do oeste paulista e do sul do então Mato Grosso, planejando e fundando cidades e núcleos de caráter agroindustrial: Vila CIMA (Companhia Industrial, Mercantil e Agrícola), Mariápolis, Bataguassu, Batayporã, Kennedyba - intentando, afinal, contribuir para incorporar os \"espaços vazios\" de Vargas à economia brasileira. No que se refere às realizações arquitetônicas e urbanísticas, a fase brasileira de Jan Bata, por sua quase total ausência na historiografia, ainda carece de melhor conhecimento e análise. Este trabalho pretende distinguir esta fase - situada entre os anos de 1940 e 1965 - e relacioná-la com as cidades da Companhia Bata criadas durante os anos do entreguerras (1918-1940). Busca analisar, preliminarmente e à luz do Movimento Moderno e das questões locais, em que medida aquela constância programática exercida pela Companhia, no planejamento da vida coletiva, do trabalho e da produção industrial, de expressão urbanística e de cunho econômico, foi seguida no ambiente brasileiro sendo preservada ou reinventada. / Idealized as an \"ideal industrial city\", the old industrial core of Batatuba, located in Piracaia (SP, Brazil) is virtually invisible in historiography of urban achievements in Brazil - although its project manifests a social character and an ascendancy of modernist thinking. Batatuba had integrated an international cities\' program aimed to materialize in architectonic and urban ways the global expansion of Bata footwears company, which began and flourished during the 1920-1930 decades. Although reiterating Taylor\'s and Ford\'s rationality and efficiency principles, the actions of Bata Company\'s directors (the first, Tomas Bata, 1876-1932, so-called \"Henry Ford of Central Europe\", and afterwards, Jan Antonin Bata, 1898-1965) added to inaugurate new references on urban and territorial planning, industrial organization and labor relations in those decades. The industrial core of Batatuba had been launched by Jan Antonin Bata by 1940, and its possible to notice the persistence of urban vocabulary replicated in the companys serial-cities, even in its urban plan and in its remaining buildings. In this sense, it wouldn\'t be a coincidence the clear similarity between Batatuba\'s plan and others Bata\'s \"ideal industrial city\", such as Batovant-Partizanske (Slovakia). During the company\'s international expansion during the 1930s that vocabulary had been gradually developed by Bata\'s architects in Zlín (Czech Republic nowadays, then the host city of the Company). Rationality in material\'s use and construction techniques, standardization and reproducibility turned into the basis of that language. Those orientations were expressed in urban plans, where residential neighborhoods revealed the preference for a garden-city model and for Tomas Batas motto: \"Working collectively and living individually.\" An important feature of that development was the company\'s approach to CIAM\'s (International Congresses of Modern Architecture) and some of its exponents - such as Le Corbusier, attracted by Bata\'s social, urban and architectonic ideas and by the possibilities offered by company\'s global extents. Second World War represented a collapse on that evolution and a shift in Bata\'s modus operandi. By 1940, Jan Antonin Bata started a new stage in his business, buying in Brazil - where he would live definitively the Road Company Sao Paulo-Mato Grosso and the Alto Paraná Commercial Company. At this stage, Bata\'s actions acquired new hues. With his companies, he participates in the profiteering of the West of São Paulo and Southern of the old Mato Grosso States, planning and founding cities and urban cores marked by an agro-industrial character: Vila CIMA (Industrial, Commercial and Agricultural Company Town), Mariápolis, Bataguassu, Batayporã, Kennedyba searching for, at least, contribute to incorporate the Brazilian empty spaces to national economy during Vargas years. In relation to urban and architectural achievements, the Brazilian phase of Jan Bata - by its almost complete absence in historiography - still needs better understanding and analysis. This paper aims to distinguish this stage - located between the years 1940 and 1965 - and relate it to Bata\'s cities created during the interwar years (1918-1940). Besides, this paper searches for analyze - preliminarily and under local issues and Modern Movements focus in which terms that programmatic constancy featured by Bata\'s (on planning collective life, work, industrial production in urban and economic ways) would been maintained or reinvented in Brazil.