O sindicalismo petroleiro e a questão nacional, entre a democracia e a ditadura (Bahia, 1957-1968)

Abstract

This doctoral thesis is a study of the petroleum trade union movement in Bahia between the years of 1957 and 1968. The analysis board the time span from the foundation of Stiep-Ba (Trade Union of Workers of the Oil Extraction Industry, section Bahia), until the second intervention made by the Military Dictatorship against the trade unions of the Bahian oil tankers, directed more specifically against Sindipetro-Ba (Petroleum Workers' Union, section Bahia). The analytical focus is focused on the approach that the workers' associations have made of the national question. In this study, we argue that the conjuncture of the 1950s helped shape the trade union identity of oil workers, constituting characteristics that resisted both the most repressive and violent practices perpetrated by the military and the more subtle and sophisticated mechanisms aimed at controlling the laborers. The study is supported by a diverse set of documents, which combine oral testimonies, memorial works, press records, union records, records produced by the control and repression organs, among others.