“The trams are already stopping”: a reflection on the April 1945 strikes in Porto Alegre

Authors

  • Fernando Cauduro Pureza UFRGS

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/1984-9222.2010v2n3p236

Keywords:

Strikes, Labor movement, Porto Alegre

Abstract

The following article pretends to discuss the strikes of april 1945 in the following perspective: facing the strong repression against the labor movement in the Estado Novo years and facing the constant watch of the trade-unions corresponding the labor laws of the period, which were the specific forms of struggle that allowed the Porto Alegre working-men to rearticulate themselves in the organization of this strikes? This question tries to elucidate some of the conditions of the movement, specially retaking the experiences that the agents faced themselves in the last years of Vargas regime, concurrent to the Brazilian participation in the Second World War.

Author Biography

Fernando Cauduro Pureza, UFRGS

Mestre em História pela UFRGS

Published

2010-08-24

How to Cite

PUREZA, Fernando Cauduro. “The trams are already stopping”: a reflection on the April 1945 strikes in Porto Alegre. Revista Mundos do Trabalho, Florianópolis, v. 2, n. 3, p. 236–260, 2010. DOI: 10.5007/1984-9222.2010v2n3p236. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/mundosdotrabalho/article/view/1984-9222.2010v2n3p236. Acesso em: 3 feb. 2026.

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