Internacionalismo operário: a identidade de classe dos trabalhadores no transporte fluvial da Bacia do Prata

Abstract

For many centuries, the rivers were the most efficient natural roads, sometimes were the only route, for communication, for merchandises transport and for movement of people inside South America. The objective of this text is to discuss the constitution of a class identity among the maritime-fluvial workers that traveled along the ports of the Bacia Platina at the beginning of the 20th century, linking the capitais of Montevideo, Buenos Aires, Asuncion and Corumba, a city of the Brazilian State of Mato Grosso. In the studied period, the typical workers rnovernents of resistance like strikes, rebellions and the constitution of associations and unions, were present in the mentioned region. In the fights, the crews of civil ships were remarkable by their organization and combativeness,