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Labor Reform in Brazil, Politics, and Sindicatos: Notes on the General Strikes of 2017
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Abstract On July 2017, Brazil’s Senate approved the country’s most extensive labor reform since the emergent 1943’s Consolidation of Labor Law (Consolidação das Leis Trabalhistas, CLT). The aforementioned reform provoked heated debates and its approval faced resistance. Unions, for instance, convened two gen... view more
On July 2017, Brazil’s Senate approved the country’s most extensive labor reform since the emergent 1943’s Consolidation of Labor Law (Consolidação das Leis Trabalhistas, CLT). The aforementioned reform provoked heated debates and its approval faced resistance. Unions, for instance, convened two general strikes: the first, on April 2017, garnered a significant amount of participation, while the latter, on June, ended with participation falling significantly below expectations. Despite the widespread rejection of Temer’s mandate and the content of the law, on June, unions were surprisingly unable to agree on a common strategy regarding a proposal on labor reform. The present research aims to explore this paradox. A survey-based analysis, along with a series of unstructured interviews with union leaders and protesters, establishes a solid empirical base from which to draw hypotheses about the Brazilian state corporatist union model and its evolution.... view less
Keywords
Brazil; labor market policy; reform; labor law; protest; trade union; general strike; social movement; corporatism; industrial relations; Latin America
Classification
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Sociology of Work, Industrial Sociology, Industrial Relations
Free Keywords
labor reform; state corporatism; trade unionism
Document language
English
Publication Year
2019
Page/Pages
p. 231-245
Journal
Journal of Politics in Latin America, 11 (2019) 2
ISSN
1868-4890
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed