Fight, raising and resist! a history of strike weavers Salvador-Bahia in september 1919

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the movement of weavers' strike [according to an specific context], its origins, actions and consequences, prompting the internal system of factories [their regulations], the hierarchical relationships of power, and struggles to guarantee the right of association, which resulted in the stoppage of all activities of the textile sector. The attitude to go on a strike, mobilizations and the stroll show that the direction of the movement and the working class were aware of their actions and those likely consequences, what signalize, beforehand, the ideological, classist and political character of womenïs actions: radicalized by the practices of confronting the authoritarianism employers and threats [police repression, harassment of the press]. They endured through the collective support and a network of solidarity