During the French Revolution, two conceptions and practices associated to worker organization and to their participation on the political sphere, whose legacy also reached Brazil, became explicit. Specific forms of Jacobism or Social Cesarism and of "Associative Sociability" confronted themselves during the entire republican period, with the predominance of tutelary practices over proletarian auto determination attempts. The modern manifestations of authoritarian paternalism and mutual solidarity are defied in contemporary Brazil by profound social and economic inequalities.
French revolution; labor; Jacobinism; workers