This article analyzes some fundamental questions for understanding the daily life of Morro Velho (Nova Lima, Minas Gerais) mineworkers in the 1930s and 1940s (first phase of Getulio Vargas government), highlighting the anti-disciplines that these workers were constructing in their daily lives. The examination of different forms of reception to the ideas disseminated by the Estado Novo identifies certain practices present in this labor class: small resistances against English "colonizer" boss; expressions of insubordination to the ideologies present in Vargas State, in its authoritarian period.
Brazilian Workers; Getúlio Vargas; popular culture; authoritarian ideas; Minas Gerais.