The labour in the PT's government: a balance of union action about the labor regulation in the years 2003-2014

• Grant number: 16/10582-5
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate
• Start date: September 15, 2016
• End date: March 14, 2017
• Field of knowledge: Interdisciplinary Subjects
• Principal Investigator: Jose Dari Krein
• Grantee: Ana Paula Fregnani Colombi
• Supervisor: Rebecca Anne Gumbrell-Mccormick
• Host Institution: Instituto de Economia (IE). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: University of London, England
• Associated to the scholarship: 14/19423-1 - The labour in the PT's government: a balance of union action about the labor regulation in the years 2003-2014, BP.DR

Abstract

There is a debate about the characterisation of the successive governments of the Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT), best exemplified by the neo-developmentalist (BRESSER-PEREIRA and GALA, 2010), social-developmentalist (CARNEIRO et al., 2012) and peripheral-liberal model (FILGUEIRAS et al., 2010). None of them reflect upon the PT development project emphasizing policies which impact labour regulation in the Brazilian society. The research aims to explore the dimension of labour within the PT administrations' development program, analysing the role of the trade union movement in the public regulation of labour. To this effect, the research will make use of the theoretical debate about union revitalisation (FREGE and KELLY, 2004) whose theoretical and methodological framework will allow analysing the economic, political and ideological dimensions of the two main Brazilian trade union confederation's actions. (AU)