The solidarity revolution. Mutual Aid Societies of Craftsmen and Workers: a popular democratic project, 1840-1887

Abstract

The author traces the history of Chile's of the nineteen hundredth, touring the Workers' Mutual Aid Societies stage that the historiography of labor movement has characterized as its “pre-history”. In this research is shown a history that begins to draw in the Chilean crafts from the 1840s, traces the history of the Society of Equality, and after the civil war of 1951 sets out the organizational history of the working societies at national extension, the newspapers that express them, and the achievement of their class identity and political and social leadership.