Fernando Teixeira da Silva

• Abstract

  Taking as its point of departure the ambiguities of the boundary between slavery and free labor and of the legal framework regulating labor relations, this project proposes to analyze situations and contexts in which different work regimes, rather than standing as dichotomous, coexist or even complement one another. The aim is not just to discuss intermediate cases between slavery and oth…

  Between slavery and the burden of freedom: workers and forms of labor exploitation in historical perspective, AP.TEM

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  During his stay at the Centro de Pesquisa em História Social da Cultura (CECULT-Unicamp), Prof. Oliver Dinius will participate in ongoing research conducted under the auspices of the special thematic project (FAPESP) intitule Trabalhadores, Legislação e Justiça do Trabalho (anos 1930-1970). He will regularly meet with the members of the main research group to discuss the potential uses of…

  A social history of the Labor Courts: the struggle for workers' rights (1930-1970), AV.EXT

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  In this project, I propose an analysis of the historical process of elaborating the legislation for the countryside in Brazil between 1954 and 1963, having in the Câmara dos Deputados annals the privileged documentation for research. During this period, different proposals on the topic were presented to Parliament, and law project 1.837, from 1960, became the law No. 4.214, of March 1963,…

  Behind the scenes of legislation: Parliament, laws and labor rights for the countryside in Brazil (1954-1963), BP.MS

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  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 ru…

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

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  The time cut proposed here corresponds to a fundamental period for theunderstanding of maritime/river work and the associative life of seamen in the Port of Manaus. A few years ago, historiography has affirmed the relative importance that the category playedin the labor movement of the Amazon. In deed, at the beginning of the 20th century, seafarers were pioneers in the associative cultur…

  Work, associative life and labor movement: the sailors in the Port of Manaus (1905-1945), BP.DR

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• Abstract

  This project outline underpins a request for an Overseas Research Exchange Fellowship and presents part of the research being developed in Brazil with funding from Fapesp. Based on the observations of a specific professional category, textile workers, the project seeks to analyze the set of relationships established by the workers amongst themselves, with bosses and superiors, with worker…

  What makes tearing and sewing: Work, Worker's Lives and Working-Class Culture in Salvador's Textile Industry, Bahia, 1940-1970, BE.EP.DR

• Abstract

  This Doctoral Exchange Application for the Emory University is part of for my doctoral dissertation. This proposal is part of a broader research that studies the Labor Court in Brazil. The project proposes to analyze the role played by workers, employers and law operators (judges, lawyers and prosecutors) in the decision-making processes of the Superior Labor Court, from 1946 to 1968, fro…

  Class conflicts in the Superior Labor Court decisions (1946-1968), BE.EP.DR

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  This proposal is a step towards a historical analysis of the post-World War II American working class. To achieve such an end, I plan to study labor grievances filed with the National Railroad Adjustment Board by Chicago railroad workers. After briefly presenting the collective bargaining system of the period, I discuss the latest historiographical work to show that, in spite of historica…

  Grievances and workplace conflict in the railroad industry, Chicago, 1946-1958, BE.EP.DR

(Only some records are available in English at this moment)