Abstract
The pernambucanos craftsmen and factory workers (from the state of Pernambuco) did not receive the republican regimen in a bestialized manner. Believing in the possibilities of change, they strengthened their old struggles for rights, which, since the empire, were organized in various forms of association. Attentive to the national and international demands of those on the bottom part of the social pyramid, those workers created new entities that intended to carry out their wish for a formal education, better working conditions and a deeper citizenship. New elements such as the celebration of May 1st, May 13th and the struggle for the 8-hour work journey were added to their traditional struggle strategies. Strikes, demands for salary increase, craving for stricto sensu political participation, among other factors, allowed the pernambucanos factory workers and craftsmen pressed a few state representatives. The latter created a bill for reducing the work journey to eight hours, allowing their beneficiaries to have time off to study. Approved as an amendment, the same was later defeated and shelved by the state senators. The paper analyzes all this effervescence that mobilized capital and labor in one of the major states of Brazil in the dawn of the republican regimen.
Keywords:
labor rights; working class; class struggle