Between the law and the will: corporatism and voluntarism system of labor relations in Brazil and the United States

• Grant number: 13/11327-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research
• Start date: December 01, 2013
• End date: July 25, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - Modern and Contemporary History
• Principal Investigator: Fernando Teixeira da Silva
• Grantee: Fernando Teixeira da Silva
• Host Investigator: Leon Reynold Fink
• Host Institution: Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas (IFCH). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), United States

Abstract

This project aims to investigate the system of so-called "voluntarism" that is said to have characterized labor relations in the United States and compare it to the corporatist arbitration of labor conflicts in Brazil that takes place through the intervention of the Labor Courts. In order to do so, it will be essential to consult material and specialists in the United States regarding collective bargaining and the system of arbitration in that country between the 1940s and 1960s. It was in this period that private and voluntary arbitration became consolidated in the United States, while in Brazil the Labor Courts established themselves as the central actor in mediating and arbitrating collective conflicts between workers and employers. (AU)