Class identity and national identity between solidarity and conflict: socialists and Italian republicans in São Paulo in the early XX century and its relations with the patrician associations and the nascent trade unionism

Abstract

Studying the italian migration — working-class movement relationship, the text focuses the conflict between class and national identity in the community of the Italian workers migrated to São Paulo at the beginning of the 20th century. Particularly, is underscored the political, mutualist and syndicalist intense activity of the italian socialists and republicans of São Paulo city.