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, by LOPES Marina
When police rescued Abelar Rebouças from a coffee plantation in southern Brazil, he was bone thin. The 51-year-old worked long days for a month in the hot sun, hauling 15-gallon bags of coffee beans.
His drinking water came from a ditch near a septic tank, according to government reports. When (…)
, by DORCADIE Mathilde
Campaigns for decent work during mega sporting events in Brazil: innovative trade union strategies in the construction sector, their successes and continuation
A Case Study by Maurício Rombaldi
The hosting of both the 2014 FIFA World Cup and 2016 Summer Olympics in Brazil forced the (…)
, by CASTRO Nazaret
In 2012, measures were taken to ensure that female trade unionists would achieve parity in the biggest trade union in Brazil and Latin America, the CUT (Central Única de Trabajadores), in a country where women’s representation in parliament, for example, is amongst the lowest in the world, and (…)
, by ROMBALDI Mauricio
This paper analyses to what extent the Decent Work Campaigns Towards and Beyond 2014 (World Cup) and Towards and Beyond 2016 (Olympics) by the Building and Wood Workers’ International (BWI) initiated a process of coordinating activities between national and international trade unions of the (…)
Abstract
The Unified Workers‘ Central (Central Única dos Trabalhadores, CUT) of Brazil, one of the world’s largest trade union federations, the most important in Latin America, and the country’s most representative, in 2015 implemented gender parity in its decision making bodies at national (…)
, by DIAS Hugo , KREIN José Dari
Abstract
This paper looks at the development of the Unified Workers’ Central of Brazil (CUT) during the four consecutive PT governments, first under Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and later under Dilma Rousseff (2003–2016). The authors maintain that this period – coinciding with the first one and (…)
, by DE OLIVEIRA Roberto Véras
On April 28, Brazil witnessed one of the most impressive general strikes ever. What, if anything, changed after the strike? How will the resistance to the Temer government go on?
The general strike of April 28, 2017 in Brazil took place 11 years after the last one and 100 years after the (…)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
Workers in Brazil—in heavy industry, services, the public sector, and agriculture—are involved in a series of strikes and mass protests such as the country hasn’t seen in decades. Driving the new labor upsurge is the strength of the country’s economy, the powerful position of unions in the (…)
, by HERRERA Ernesto
The call for a congress for the formation of a new Brazilian trade union federation - the Congress of the Working Class (Conclat) - aroused enthusiasm. The Conclat proposed to unify, in a new class-conscious federation, trade union, popular and student currents resisting the offensive of the (…)
, by McDONNELL Patrick J.
For as far as the eye can see, stalks of sugar cane march across the hillsides here like giant praying mantises. This is ground zero for ethanol production in Brazil — “the Saudi Arabia of biofuels,” as some have already labeled this vast South American country.
But even as Brazil’s booming (…)
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