Militant trade: graphic workers in Rio de Janeiro city

Author(s)

Cristiane Muniz Thiago

• Document type: Doctoral Thesis
• Press: Campinas, SP.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas
• Defense date: 2011-06-05

Examining board members

Claudio Henrique de Moraes Batalha; Fernando Teixeira da Silva; Angela Maria Carneiro Araújo; Marco Aurelio Silva de Santana; Paulo Roberto Ribeiro Fontes

• Advisor: Claudio Henrique de Moraes Batalha

Abstract

This thesis discusses the graphic workers and activists of Rio de Janeiro city and their point of view on their history between the 1960s and 1980s. Our analysis also includes the construction of the professional identity of this group through different backgrounds, including militancy in the Graphic Workers? Union of Rio de Janeiro City (STIGRJ). The relevance of the research is to examine the history of these workers between 1960 and 1980, promoting an approach not restricted to the repression of the workers and their unions, especially since 1964. Dealing with graphic militants through their life stories and their professional organization, this work helps to expand the knowledge of workers? history taking into account not only workplace and union experiences, but also incorporating other elements such as migration processes, partisan militancy, daily conflicts etc. Through the Journals of the category, the political police reports, the judgments of the Regional Labor Court and the interviews we build our analysis on the Graphic Workers in Rio. What distinguishes graphics from other militant groups in their political activism, celebrations and even conflicts is the construction of a type of identity, defined, above all by a strong professional pride. Our research found that despite their strong identity ties graphic militants built different possibilities for the struggle against the authoritarian order prevailing in the post-1964, which included the institutional use of union and underground militancy (AU)