The social issue in Rio Grande do Sul: positivism, borgismo and the incorporation of the proletariat to modern society

Abstract

This article has as objective to analyze the form for which the social matter was boarded for the  Partido Republicano Rio-Grandense –PRR– detaching the treatment excused to the working-class movement and the speech that the party with respect to the social matter in the governments of Júlio de Castilhos and Borges de Medeiros. In such a way analyzes elements of its social composition how much of its relation with the oppositions in the state, detaching a series of characteristics that confer certain peculiarity to the state of the Rio Grande do Sul during the First Republic. The main focus of the work is, however, the position of the government of the state of the Rio Grande do Sul ahead of the different movements strikers occurred between the years of 1895 and 1919.