caa a22 4500 386355452 CHVBK 20180307111850.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198906 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0022216X00014784 doi S0022216X00014784 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0022216X00014784 Meade Teresa Teresa Meade is Assistant Professor of History, Union College, Schenectady, New York. ‘Living Worse and Costing More': Resistance and Riot in Rio de Janeiro, 1890-1917 [Elektronische Daten] [Teresa Meade] On 1st May 1917 m Rio de Janeiro, protesters took to the streets carrying placards and shouting slogans denouncing high prices and miserable living conditions. Over the succeeding months the May Day protest mushroomed into an unprecedented general strike of more than 50,000 workers in the federal capital. Rio de Janeiro had witnessed frequent protests and agitation against taxes, high prices, shortages, poor housing and public services and the cost of transport during the late Empire and first decades of the Republic.1 What was different about May Day 1917 was that complaints over consumer, community-based issues affecting the general populace triggered off a wave of trade-union militancy unique in the city's history. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Journal of Latin American Studies Cambridge University Press 21/1-2(1989-06), 241-266 0022-216X 21:1-2<241 1989 21 LAS https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022216X00014784 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022216X00014784 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Meade Teresa Teresa Meade is Assistant Professor of History, Union College, Schenectady, New York NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Latin American Studies Cambridge University Press 21/1-2(1989-06), 241-266 0022-216X 21:1-2<241 1989 21 LAS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge