Diligents and rebbelions: work and railroad workers organization at Estrada de Ferro Central do Brasil and Leopoldina Railway Company (1889-1920)

Author(s)

Glaucia Fraccaro

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: Campinas, SP.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas
• Defense date: 2008-02-20

Examining board members

Claudio Henrique de Moraes Batalha; Marcelo Badaró Mattos; Sidney Chalhoub

• Advisor: Claudio Henrique de Moraes Batalha

Abstract

Are the railway workers a labor aristocracy? This dissertation intends to be a history of the Estrada de Ferro Central do Brasil¿s railroad workers, during the context of Rio de Janeiro¿s working class formation, from the first years of the Republic up to the general strike of 1920, in Rio de Janeiro, initiated by the workers of the Leopoldina Railroad Company. It tries to understand the conjunction of their proposals and the organizational practice with the aim of revealing the experiences of these workers, from their work conditions to the particularities of their occupation, considering the bargaining policies with company officials and civil authorities. In order to achieve this proposal, it was necessary to reflect on work division at the railway company, the routine of tasks and the relations established between railroad workers and the larger labor movement during the Brazilian First Republic (AU)