CNT and Labor Regulations on First Republic (1923 - 1930)

• Grant number: 11/00070-3
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: March 01, 2011
• End date: December 31, 2011
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - History of Brazil
• Principal Investigator: Samuel Fernando de Souza
• Grantee: Gabriela de Oliveira Nery Costa
• Host Institution: Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas (IFCH). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 06/57297-1 - Workers in Brazil: identities, rights and politics (17th to the 20th Century), AP.TEM

Abstract

This research intend to analyse the process of labor regulations in Brazil from reading the discussions in the Conselho Nacional do Trabalho between 1923 and 1930. With the suport of an especialized bibliography from Labor History and about the period called First Republic, the reading of the registers from CNT reveals important ways and mechanisms of dispute inside the process of labor regulation, wich started at the begining of XX century. Therefore, the analyse of the debates from CNT contributes for a better understanding at the formation of labor laws process in Brazil. The main objective of this research is to indentify practices, oppositions and disputes involving the State, employers and urban workers during implementation of those laws and implementations of ways to guaranty it.