The objective of this article is to analyze, through newspapers and oral history, the articulations built by a diverse set of organizations and unions in Rio de Janeiro in 1978 and 1979. It is argued that this type of mobilization arrangement is one of the explicative factors to understand how, in the late 1970s, the Brazilian working class was able to overcome the limits imposed on it by the military dictatorship.
Keywords: labour; trade unions; strike; military dictatorship.
