The Rural Worker's Statute and the parliament: rights and politics (1960-1963)

• Grant number: 18/25965-2
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: April 01, 2019
• End date: December 31, 2019
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - History of Brazil
• Principal Investigator: Fernando Teixeira da Silva
• Grantee: Julio Capelupi
• Host Institution: Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas (IFCH). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This project intends to study how the Brazilian Parliament debated and legislated on the rights of rural workers in the course of the process of a law project of 1960 that in 1963 would become The Rural Workers Statute - RWS - (Law No. 4,214). The law guaranteed rural workers the rights previously guaranteed to urban wage earners by the Consolidation of Labor Laws - with adaptations to rural work. In this way, it is a question of examining how the parliamentarians discussed the labor legislation and the rights of the field employee during those three years of debate around the proposal, having in the parliamentary annals the privileged documentation for the research. Moreover, the form and reasons why the National Congress dealt with labor rights issues were not isolated from popular demands or from the political action of society as a whole. Therefore, the present project also seeks to understand how the mobilizations of the working class and its representative bodies have resonated in parliamentary debates.