Os "homens de aço" na luta por direitos: a greve ferroviária de 1945 em Santa Maria

Abstract

The present work carries through a study on the Strike of the Railroad Workers of April of 1945, initiated in Santa Maria, and its joints with the final context of the dictatorship of the Estado Novo, emphasizing the influences that surrounded the railroad activity, such as the practical catholics, the cooperative activity and the governist speech. Although the subject of the strike is relatively common in the perspective of the social history of the work, the specific study on the mobilizations of the category it is not finished. Being thus, the central objective of this monograph it is to purpose a discussion that passes through the basics about the most defined delimitation of working logic as the center of gaucho’s working movements, without losing of sight the particularitities and the diversity between the employees of the Viação Férrea in Rio Grande do Sul (VFRGS).