New syndicalism and old structures: an analysis of metallurgical syndicalism of CUT-SP

• Grant number: 17/27065-6
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: August 01, 2018
• End date: November 30, 2019
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Political Science
• Principal Investigator: Joelson Gonçalves de Carvalho
• Grantee: Eduardo José Rezende Pereira
• Host Institution: Centro de Educação e Ciências Humanas (CECH). Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). São Carlos , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The economic and political crisis that Brazil faces affects daily several sectors of society, reaching also the representative entities. In this sense, this research project seeks to reflect on the impacts of this crisis on the representation and performance of the trade union movement, aiming, as a general objective, to analyze the trajectory of cutista metallurgical syndicalism. The central hypothesis that sustains this objective is that the CUT faces in this scenario a crisis of representativeness that has its roots in the bureaucratization and the linkage of the union structures to the structures of government. Two other hypotheses stand out: there are at least two distinct intellectual interpretations, linked to USP and Unicamp, about the moment by which Brazilian syndicalism passes; and that the response given to the crisis by trade unionism was in the sense of political formation and creation of groups with identity issues. (AU)