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Author French, John D.

Title Drowning in laws : labor law and Brazilian political culture / John D. French
Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 233 pages) : illustrations
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 polićia)
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-226) and index
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Subject Labor laws and legislation -- Social aspects -- Brazil
Industrial relations -- Brazil
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
Industrial relations
Labor laws and legislation -- Social aspects
Brazil
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2003025753
ISBN 0807863556
9780807863558
9780807828571
0807828572
9780807855270
0807855278