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Mudanças no sistema brasileiro de relações de trabalho entre 1978 e 1991

Authors

  • Walter Arno Pichler

Keywords:
Negociação coletiva do trabalho, Relações trabalhista, Corporativismo
Abstract
This paper is aimed at identifying the extent of changes in Brazilian industrial relations between 1978 and 1991. It is based on the assumption that basic features of a given system are expressed on the way the employment relationship is regulated. Typically, two contrasting models could be identified: the pluralist systems and the statutory systems. Since collective bargaining plays quite different roles in these models, it is here assumed that by placing the focus of the analysis on the evolution of the characteristics of the negotiations we can identify changes in industrial relations through time. The research is focused on the evolution of collective bargaining in Rio Grande do Sul, the southernmost State of Brazil. It is based on a variety of data collected in the files of the Labour Courts and of the Ministry of Labour, in collective agreements and arbitration awards, and in interviews statements held with representatives of unions, of employers'associations and of authorities. The main outcome of the research is that a move away from the rigid state corporatist system — a sub-type of a statutory model—, that prevailed in the country in the years prior to 1978, occurred. Under corporatism collective bargaining used to be a marginal and unimportant form of union-management relationship. However, there is evidence that, throughout the eighties, negotiations became an important means of regulation of the employment relationship. Therefore, it is here maintained that the Brazilian system could no longer be classified as corporatist It should rather be regarded as a statutory-bargained system, a model in which collective bargaining and legislation combine.
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Vol. 23 No. 2 (2002)
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