“Filhos do trabalho: a união faz a força”: Fraternidade e solidariedade no mundo do trabalho no início do século XIX. 2010.

Abstract

This study investigates the existence of fraternity and solidarity between French and British workers from the beginning of the Industrial Revolution to the first half of the nineteenth century. Before examining this we will briefly outline the changes which occurred in these countries as a result of social and political revolutions and then reconstruct the origin and trajectory of the ideas of fraternity and solidarity as they took shape in the eighteenth century. We will then identify how these ideas were appropriated by the English and French workers. We will finish with an examination of the work of utopian socialists Saint-Simon and Robert Owen in order to verify how they incorporated these ideas in their theories for the reorganization of world production. Based on the analyzes, it is possible to verify parallels between the trajectories of both concepts, as well as to observe some differences in their use in that historical context. While fraternity appears more often in workers' discourses, helping to forge an experience of belonging, solidarity is understood by socialist theorists as a pillar of social organization.