Obrera station
Metro · 8 Line 8
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The story behind the icon
The station image is the silhouette of an industrial safety helmet framed by two gearwheels.
The Obrera neighbourhood, whose layout was begun at the start of the century, is characterised by the use of the chamfered corner in its blocks; the plots were acquired by craftsmen of the day and by one of the most important political and social groups in our country to emerge with the birth of industry: the workers.
In the last decade of the nineteenth century and the first of the twentieth, the (urban) labour movement arose in those places where a certain craft or manufacturing development had taken place. Mexico City, Buenos Aires and Santiago de Chile were some of the cities that saw the development of an early trade unionism. In Mexico, during the presidency of Porfirio Díaz, state repression made itself felt, one of the most notable episodes being the massacre of the Río Blanco textile strikers in 1907. Here the Mexican Liberal Party was created, led by the brothers Ricardo and Enrique Flores Magón, one of the most advanced organisations not only of its time but even today. They published the newspaper Regeneración from 1900 which, because of the constant repression in our country, came to be printed in the United States. The paper was aimed chiefly at workers and peasants.