Professorado municipal de Salvador: queixas, crises e greve (1912-1918)

Abstract

This dissertation deals with the primary teachers of the city of Salvador, the municipal teachers, as they were called during the First Republic in the city of Bahia. This paper aims to present the elementary school teachers of the city of Salvador as a group that carried out claims actions and that was at the heart of the clashes that involved political groups from 1912 with the arrival of JJ Seabra to the government of Bahia and its influence of the municipal administration. When choosing the teachers of the primary public education of the city of Salvador as an object of research, it was sought to analyze the actions of these workers in the defense of their interests, their strategies of mobilization, the articulations established with the political groups, the organization of the strike movement of 1918 which would become an element of political pressure during the Seabra’s predominance in Bahia. The journalistic source was the basis of the research of this research. In addition to the newspapers, the messages of the governors, the reports presented by the municipal stewardship, the writings produced by the teachers, photographic registers, besides the historiographic productions that deal with the subject in the period of the First Republic in the city of Salvador served as research source. The text analyzes the characters, the events and the social context that led the teacher to launch an unprecedented strike in 1918 that was highlighted in the local and national press. The dissertation focuses on the fact that the strike was an organized action that guided its actions taking advantage of the political instability at that time. The strike movement was strengthened by the exchanges of experiences and ties of solidarity of the teachers who established themselves years before the outbreak of the movement.