1917–1919 Brazil strike movement

1917 general strike in São Paulo

From 1917 to 1919, a large strike movement shook Brazil. It culminated in several general strikes in 1917 and an attempted anarchist uprising in November 1918.

References

• Batalha, Claudio (2017). "Revolutionary Syndicalism and Reformism in Rio de Janeiro's Labour Movement (1906–1920)". International Review of Social History. 62 (S25): 75–103.

Further reading

• Adelman, Jeremy (1998). "Political Ruptures and Organized Labor: Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico, 1916–1922". International Labor and Working-Class History. 54: 103–125.
• Dulles, John W. F. (1973). Anarchists and Communists in Brazil, 1900–1935. Austin, TX/London: University of Texas Press.
• Maram, Sheldon L. (1977). "Labor and the Left in Brazil, 1890-1921: A Movement Aborted". The Hispanic American Historical Review. 57 (2): 254–272.
• Prado, Carlos (2017). "A Revolução Russa e o movimento operário brasileiro: confusão ou adesão consciente?". Revista Tilhas da História. 6 (12): 57–70.
• Toledo, Edilene (2017). "Um ano extraordinário: greves, revoltas e circulação de ideias no Brasil em 1917". Estudos Históricos (Rio de Janeiro). 30 (61): 497–518.
• Wolfe, Joel (1991). "Anarchist Ideology, Worker Practice: The 1917 General Strike and the Formation of Sao Paulo's Working Class". The Hispanic American Historical Review. 71 (4): 809–846.
• Wolfe, Joel (1993). Working Women, Working Men: São Paulo and the Rise of Brazil's Industrial Working Class, 1900–1955. Durham, NC/London: Duke University Press.