Italian workers production and Brazilian sanitary movement: contributions to think the notion off collective

Abstract

The article discusses the Italian labor movement and its influence in the production of the Brazilian health movement, problematizing the way in which the notion of collective is being built in the field of collective health. It is intended to understand how marginal forces contributed to the composition of the thinking that animated the Brazilian health movement in the seventies. The objective is to discuss elements of the Italian context of the second half of the twentieth century that help to think the notion of collective within the health movement and collective health. In order to achieve the proposed objective, a historical rescue of the Italian labor thought will be realized. History is used from a genealogical point of view, that is, to diagnose what we are in the present, because in this way it seems possible to offer new elements that help to think the Brazilian health movement today.