Os trilhos do progresso: episódios das lutas operárias na construção da estrada de ferro de Baturité (1872-1926)

Abstract

This article aims to present some cases of conflicts between builders and railwaymen from Ceará during the time of the Estrada de Ferro de Barurité building (1872-1926). It seeks also to compare some kinds of struggle developed by the "retirantes" who worked in this company during the drought times and that of the permanent railway workers, which seems to indicare some common traditions and experiences of resistance against the new patterns. At the and, it seeks, in the different discourses about the world of labour thar the company was elaborating in this time, the changes thar had been taken place in the way of dealing with the conflicts by the rulers, the managers, and the worker 's leaders.