Ao som das sinetas: Do sacerdócio à confiança na luta Movimentos docentes na rede pública estadual do Rio Grande do Sul (1979 - 1991)

Abstract

The present Thesis seeks to analyze the constant clash between the collective of educators in Rio Grande do Sul and its employer, represented for their governments. The chosen temporal cut occurs between the years 1979 and 1991, period of great effervescence, strikes of prolonged duration and consolidation of a nearer teaching profile to the reality of the workers and their vindictive-union practices. Such narrative part of the meeting held at Clube Caixeiros Viajantes, in April 1979, and ends in May 1991, at the conclusion of the stoppage in that year. This period was marked by an almost permanent conflict between education workers and the governments of the period, constituting the time of the greatest striking rise of the teaching collective. At the same time, the central tool of articulation of such struggles, the CPERS - association / union founded in 1945 - followed this scenario of mutations and was adapted to respond to this conflicts. Among the various sources used here are the press records, the elaborations of strikers and governments in diverse materials of public expression, beyond to depositions from participants of those events, as well as the relevant speeches of the legislative tribunals to understand the aspects featured here. It is intended, therefore, to reflect into the contradictions constituted in such a period, understanding such events as part of the mutation occurring in teachers' lives, especially from the mid-1970s. It is hoped that this Thesis will contribute to the understanding of the outstanding theme in the area of studies on the “world of work” and in the “history of education”.