Portugueses e experiências políticas: A luta e o pão. São Paulo 1870-1945

Abstract

This article is intended to be a contribution to the study of the everyday experiences of immigrants in the city of Sao Paulo during the period between 1870 and 1945. The analysis will seek to recapture the web of relationships in their everyday life and experience with respect to business and labor, relating aspects of their activities in the production and marketing of bread, and observing the interchange of communication and tensions that were prevalent between the owners and workers of the bakeries of which most of them were of Portuguese origin. Focusing mainly on documents from DEOPS (State Department of Political and Social Order), particularly the charts, the article retrieves information concerning confrontations, forms of resistance, struggles and strikes that plagued the bakery sector.