The strike against the justice: workers, direct action and the labour courts (1954-1963)

• Grant number: 11/03098-6
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: May 01, 2011
• End date: December 31, 2011
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - History of Brazil
• Principal Investigator: Fernando Teixeira da Silva
• Grantee: Andrei Felipe Campanini
• 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 aims to study the ways in which the Labour Court System (JT) articulated the experiences of workers and unions, between 1954-1963, through the analysis of collective bargaining cases located at the 2nd Regional Labor Court of São Paulo. My focus is on the uses of the Consolidation of Labour Legislation (CLT) and the JT as instruments of working class struggle, especially in times of outbreak of strike movements, and, conversely, on the procedures of the JT in relation to the pressures of collective workers.