Legionaries of the revolution or a social smallpox? The public debate on the unemployed workers sheltered in Santiago de Chile, 1919-1922
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worker, sheltered, revolutionary, public debate, Santiago de ChileAbstract
After the saltpeter crisis of 1919 in Chile, thousands of workers were sheltered in Santiago by order of the government in turn. This article explores the political practices that these workers exercised and analyzes the public debate that was generated regard this practices. The purpose is to show that the presence of unemployed workers in the capital, who were characterized as revolutionary agents, increased the tension between different political forces such as the old parliamentary oligarchy, the Socialist Workers Party and Arturo Alessandri. This article is based on the analysis of newspaper sources and documents from the General Directorate of Labor.
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