La huelga minera en Santa Eulalia, en la nueva Vizcaya, 1730.

Abstract

The oldest collective labor conflict that has been documented to date in the history of Mexico is the so-called tumult or uproar of Santa Eulalia, in Chihuahua, which began on March 7, 1730 in a nearby rural area called “The Eye of Don Benito.” The episode has been briefly addressed by other authors, 1 and it is the first antecedent of the modern strike movements in which the active germination process of the working class is revealed at the same time. the viceroyalty novohispano. It follows from the foregoing the need for a particular study on the case, which provides some clarity about the complex social processes that announced signs of legal and political modernity, and it must also be established that the present work is merely exploratory and preliminary on a matter that certainly deserves more attention. For your presentation, it is advisable to take a quick look at that remote mining town of the 18th century.