The so-called "job crisis" resulting from a complex set of business and economic transformations taking place in the late nineteenth century, formed a structural aspect of the Portuguese reality since the 80s. This circumstance, decisive in the Portuguese national situation, influenced largely the Portuguese Republican Party propaganda. Once deployed the republican regime, the construction of the new state, discussed in the context of the National Constituent Assembly, was confronted with the characteristics of a complex social reality, both in rural and urban areas, dominated by the "job crisis", by the labor claims accompanied by the strike outbreak whose political and economic consequences conflicted with the inner image of tranquility desired in the challenging context, of the new regime's external recognition.
State; Portuguese Republic; labor