The strike movement broadened across workplaces and neighborhoods in São Paulo in mid-July. Contemporary labor organization, neighborhood associations, and anarchist newspapers helped circulate demands amid inflation and police repression. The strike demonstrated workers’ capacity to halt production and make their demands public. It was a multiethnic working-class mobilization; the sources used here do not support attributing it to one racial group or equating wage labor with enslavement.
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What did the July 1917 strike demonstrate?
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The movement showed labor’s capacity for collective disruption amid repression.
The 1917 strike was exclusively a Black-led movement according to the sources used here.
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The sources describe a multiethnic labor mobilization and do not support attributing it to one racial group.