Significant advances in the study of the historic labor movement have entailed new work on the intersection between political parties, trade unions and subjects such as ‘race’, colonialism, sexuality, masculinity, and the reception of scientific ideas. The intersections between the labor movement and the politics of health, however, have been neglected to date both in labor studies and in social studies of health care and provision. This article builds on my on-going research into the dynamics of the Lusophone (Portuguese-speaking) labor movement in the form of anarchism and syndicalism and explores, specifically, the reception of ideas on health and the attainment of healthy working conditions and lifestyles as a central aim of these working-class movements. This study examines, among other aspects, the reception of ideas on nutrition, medical care, the provision of hospitals, the responsibility of medical professionals, sexual health, the consumption of alcohol and the provision of quality housing for workers within a framework that critiqued capitalism and the state and the relations they fostered.

A further dimension is incorporated into this study. This is the colonial dynamic at play between Portugal and its colonies, in this case Mozambique. What were the relations between the Portuguese syndicalist movement and the emerging trade union movement in Mozambique? To what degree did concerns in Portugal over issues of health find resonance in this African colony's labor movement? To what degree was the largely white labor movement in Mozambique attuned to local knowledge on health and racial issues surrounding health? What specific aspects of health and medicine were broached in the colony and how did these interact with an anticolonial critique and discourses and practices of ‘tropical medicine’?

This study, through a detailed analysis of a range of libertarian periodicals in Portugal and Mozambique during the movement’s period of maximum influence provides responses to these questions and makes a contribution to transnational research on labour movements through the interconnecting linguistic and class dynamics of the Lusophone world.

历史性劳工运动研究的重大进展需要对政党、工会与“种族”、殖民主义、性、男子气概和科学思想接受等主题之间的交叉点进行新的研究。然而，迄今为止，劳工研究以及医疗保健和供给的社会研究都忽视了劳工运动与卫生政治之间的交叉点。本文以我对无政府主义和工团主义形式的葡语（葡萄牙语）劳工运动动态的持续研究为基础，并具体探讨了健康思想的接受以及健康工作条件和生活方式的实现这些工人阶级运动的中心目标。本研究在批判资本主义的框架内，探讨了营养、医疗保健、医院的提供、医疗专业人员的责任、性健康、饮酒以及为工人提供优质住房等方面的观念的接受程度。以及国家和他们所建立的关系。

这项研究纳入了另一个维度。这就是葡萄牙及其殖民地（在本例中为莫桑比克）之间发挥作用的殖民动态。葡萄牙工团主义运动与莫桑比克新兴工会运动之间有何关系？葡萄牙对健康问题的担忧在多大程度上在这个非洲殖民地的劳工运动中引起了共鸣？莫桑比克以白人为主的劳工运动在多大程度上适应了当地有关健康和围绕健康的种族问题的知识？殖民地提出了健康和医学的哪些具体方面以及这些方面如何与反殖民批评以及“热带医学”的论述和实践相互作用？

这项研究通过对葡萄牙和莫桑比克在运动影响最大时期的一系列自由主义期刊的详细分析，对这些问题做出了回答，并通过葡语世界的语言和阶级动态的相互联系，为劳工运动的跨国研究做出了贡献。