Labour, law and the state in Brazil : 1930-1950 / Maria Célia Paoli.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Paoli, Maria Célia Pinheiro Machado, author.

Series:

Coleção em busca da política

Maria Célia Paoli's collected works ; Volume 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Legislative histories--Brazil.

Legislative histories.

Labor unions--Brazil--History.

Labor unions.

Political sociology--Brazil--History.

Political sociology.

Brazil--History--1930-1945.

Brazil.

Physical Description:

266 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

São Carlos : EdUFSCar, 2024.

Summary:

"This book is the doctoral thesis of the sociologist Maria Célia Paoli (1945-2019), defended in 1987, at the University of London, under the supervision of Eric Hobsbawn (1917-2012). The thesis describes and analyzes the struggles for labour rights in Brazil among the 1930s to 1950s decades, focusing on the conflicts between workers, employers and the Brazilian State, which resulted in the enactment of a set of labour laws in the country. This is a highl sophisticated historiographical and sociological study about one of the key moments in the social, economic and political formation of the modern Brazil." -Inside cover.

Contents:

Becoming class and becoming society: the labour's struggles and rights in the Brazilian formation

Abstract

Introduction

Chapter I - The working class and its differences: rights at issue, society at issue (1906-1929)

Chapter II - A right to the sun: the world of labour and the struggle for justice (1930-1934)

Chapter III - Merely political incidenta - workers' rights: union struggles (1930-1939)

Chapter IV - The agentes of public life (1939-1944)

Chapter V - The cultural and material heritage: representative democracy and social rights (1945-1950)

Conclusion

Appendix

Bibliography.

Notes:

Originally the author's doctoral thesis, defended in 1987 at the University of London.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-266).

ISBN:

9788576006350

8576006359

OCLC:

1531051603