{"product_id":"workers-before-the-court","title":"Workers Before the Court","description":"\u003cp\u003eLaw and justice are studied in this book from the perspective of social and\u003cbr\u003eglobal history. The main focus of Workers Before the Tribunal is to\u003cbr\u003eovercome traditional binary oppositions between corporativist and\u003cbr\u003econtratualist models of labor relations, the former representing a view in\u003cbr\u003ewhich the working class would have more autonomy in struggling for better\u003cbr\u003elabor conditions, the latter meaning the protagonism of the State in\u003cbr\u003epromoting labor rights. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTeixeira da Silva presents three main arguments. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFirst, he shows that the Brazilian labor justice system created during the Getúlio Vargas dictatorship (1930-1945), although inspired by Mussolini's legal\u003cbr\u003eorder in Italy, is very different from the Fascist Magistratura del Lavoro. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSecond, in his comparative analysis with other national cases, such as the\u003cbr\u003eUnited States, France, Germany and Australia, the author argues that there\u003cbr\u003ewas a large circulation of ideas and practices, resulting in a more complex\u003cbr\u003edynamic of appropriation of international ideas on labor rights and\u003cbr\u003einstitutions in Brazil. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThird, Teixeira da Silva demonstrates that litigation in labor courts was one strategy of the working-class movement in Brazil, together with strikes and other means of confrontation. Therefore, he questions historiographical and political\u003cbr\u003eapproaches that see labor justice as a weak substitute for class\u003cbr\u003eaction. The \"jurisdictionalization\" of labor relations became a\u003cbr\u003econstitutive element in the making of the Brazilian working class. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe book is anchored in the research of hundreds of labor litigation cases during the dramatic months preceding the 1964 civil-military coup d’état that inaugurated a quarter century of dictatorial rule in Brazil. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"De Gruyter","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":57334863528280,"sku":"9783110634402","price":117.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9783110634402.jpg?v=1779277594","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/workers-before-the-court","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}