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Workers Before the Court : Conflicts and Labor Justice in the Context of the 1964 Coup d'Etat in Brazil by Texeira da Silva Fernando; is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Law and justice are studied in this book from the perspective of social and global history. The main focus of Workers Before the Tribunal is to overcome traditional binary oppositions between corporativist and contratualist models of labor relations, the former representing a view in which the working class would have more autonomy in struggling for better labor conditions, the latter meaning the protagonism of the State in promoting labor rights. Teixeira da Silva presents three main arguments. First, he shows that the Brazilian labor justice system created during the Getúlio Vargas dictatorship (1930-1945), although inspired by Mussolini's legal order in Italy, is very different from the Fascist Magistratura del Lavoro. Second, in his comparative analysis with other national cases, such as the United States, France, Germany and Australia, the author argues that there was a large circulation of ideas and practices, resulting in a more complex dynamic of appropriation of international ideas on labor rights and institutions in Brazil. Third, Teixeira da Silva demonstrates that litigation in labor courts was one strategy of the working-class movement in Brazil, together with strikes

Who reads Workers Before the Court : Conflicts and Labor Justice in the Context of the 1964 Coup d'Etat in Brazil?

Author

Texeira da Silva Fernando;

Publisher

De Gruyter De Gruyter Oldenbourg

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9783110638844

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Management, History, American Studies