The trajectory of the Department of Labor State of São Paulo and mediation of labor relation (1911-1937)

Author(s)

Marcelo Antonio Chaves

• Document type: Doctoral Thesis
• Press: Campinas, SP.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas
• Defense date: 2009-12-18

Examining board members

Fernando Teixeira da Silva; Angela Maria Carneiro Araújo; Alexandre Fortes; Michael McDonald Hall; Claudio Henrique de Moraes Batalha

• Advisor: Fernando Teixeira da Silva

Abstract

The strengthening of the state apparatus at the federal level, especially with the creation of the Ministry of Labor, Industry and Commerce (MTIC) is well highlighted by the historiography. My research is a new approach from a perspective brought by unpublished sources revealing an aspect not yet investigated: the creation of MTIC found an institution with similar functions in São Paulo state, exactly there, where the reaction to the federal government turned into a civil war. The State Department of Labor (DET) existed in São Paulo since 1911, had a strong structure, served as model for the MTIC and produced curious episodes that well reflect the tensions in the political and economic centralization at the federal level, which require further studies. This doctoral thesis reveals some aspects of this yet unknown and unusual relationship between the DET and the MTIC in São Paulo state in the early 1930's, and traces the historical trajectory of the Department of State, since its inception to the deployment of the Estado Novo in 1937, despite the DET only extinguished in 1952. (AU)