Workers Before the Court : : Conflicts and Labor Justice in the Context of the 1964 Coup d'Etat in Brazil / / Texeira da Silva Fernando.

Law and justice are studied in this book from the perspective of social andglobal history. The main focus of Workers Before the Tribunal is toovercome traditional binary oppositions between corporativist andcontratualist models of labor relations, the former representing a view inwhich the working c...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2019
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Place / Publishing House:München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2019]
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Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Work in Global and Historical Perspective ; 6
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XXVIII, 263 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Glossary
  • Foreword
  • Preface – Leon Fink
  • Preface to the English Edition
  • Introduction
  • PART I: Labor Courts in Brazil: problems of historiography and research
  • 1. Historiography of a “minor tribunal”
  • 2. Critique of the dualistic obsession: contracts and the law
  • 3. The Labor Courts and the Magistratura del Lavoro: Comparative Notes
  • PART II: Normative Powers and Urban and Rural Workers
  • 4. Agreements and Judgments: The Labor Courts in the “Long Year of 1963”
  • 5. The Act of Judging: Restrictions and Possibilities
  • 6. The “Mystique of Strikes” and the “Sovereignty of the Courts”
  • 7. “Class Justice” between “the fields and factory”
  • Conclusion
  • Sources and Archives
  • Bibliography
  • Index