Open AccessRiots, social movements and the “making of the working class”: forms of popular organization and urban protest in São Paulo (1945-1964)
Author(s) -
Marcos Virgílio da Silva
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
revista brasileira de estudos urbanos e regionais
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2317-1529
pISSN - 1517-4115
DOI - 10.22296/2317-1529.2015v17n3p34
Subject(s) - social movement , working class , power (physics) , sociology , new social movements , class (philosophy) , gender studies , political science , law , epistemology , politics , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics
The present article investigates the expressions of popular demands and discontent within three forms of manifestation: riots, non-class-based “social movements”, and movements organized by the “working classes” or “workers”. By examining these different movements we expect to problematize the recurring literature surrounding these movements, which has often characterized them as being insufficient or incomplete, reactive and subordinate to higher authorities, thus being void of any transforming power. It is therefore hoped that this article may contribute to a debate that would seek to transcend the very frequently encountered viewpoint that popular protests have been sporadic, rare phenomena throughout Brazilian history.