Trabalhadores, sindicatos e greves na cidade do Rio de Janeiro em 1919: influências políticas e culturais compartilhadas no ciclo de agitação social global

Abstract

The outbreak of the First World War and the Russian Revolution created economic, political and cultural conditions that led to the development of a cycle of global social unrest between the years 1917 and 1920. In several Western countries, famine boosted workers and workers to take to the streets, in struggles for better consumption conditions and for the expansion of labor rights. Other forms of collective action also became recurrent, such as strikes, partial and general, and the insurrectionary attempts that inspired workers' movements internationally. The city of Rio de Janeiro, capital of the Republic, was the stage for collective actions, such as strikes and celebrations, which took place in 1919, which obtained, in response to the struggles for rights, a repressive effort on the part of the State and its institutions. This doctoral thesis seeks to interpret and understand the ways in which worker mobilization and police repression, understood as the central political and cultural elements of that context, assimilated and re-elaborated, according to their own expectations, the languages and practices present in the cycle of global social unrest, given the existence of reciprocal influences on the international stage.