Jaboatão uprising: the participation of Great Western Railway workers in the 1935 communist insurrection
Communist Insurrection. Pernambuco. Great Western of Brazil. 1935. Railway workers.
The research entitled Jaboatão uprising: the participation of railway workers from Great Western of Brazil in the communist insurrection of 1935 aims to analyze the local/regional elements and the internal dynamics of these workers in the period delimited from the analysis of legal proceedings by the National Council of Labor and the National Security Court, in addition to the records of these workers at the Department of Political and Social Order and the news published in Diário de Pernambuco and Diário da Manhã, two Pernambuco newspapers with large circulation at the time. This is, therefore, a research proposal in the field of Social History of Work from the Thompsonian perspective of history from below, which also seeks to highlight the identities of these railway workers, their individual and collective experiences, their political and social organization and the reasons that led them to join the revolutionary attempt of 1935.