Drowning in laws : labor law and Brazilian political culture / John D. French.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

French, John D.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor laws and legislation--Social aspects--Brazil.

Labor laws and legislation.

Industrial relations--Brazil.

Industrial relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 233 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Seen as the end of an exclusively repressive approach, the Consolidation of Labour Laws (CLT) was long hailed as one of the world's most advanced bodies of social legislation. John D. French examines the juridical origins of the CLT and the role it played in the cultural and political formation of the Brazilian working class.

Contents:

Brazilian labor legislation and the origins debate : gifts bestowed and fascist impositions

The scholarly politics of Brazilian labor law

The CLT in practice : a generosity akin to fraud

For the English to see? The CLT in foreign and domestic perspective

The enigma of Brazilian labor law : Vargas and the government's bureaucratic Trabalhista Empire, 1950-1954

Labor law through the prism of subjectivity : legal consciousness, grievances, and class mobilization

The politics of aphorism : the social question as a police matter (caso de policia)

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-226) and index.

ISBN:

9798890877772

9780807863558

0807863556

OCLC:

70744053