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State Management, Trade Unions and Politics in Brazil
Author(s) -
RAMALHO JOSÉ RICARDO
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
journal of historical sociology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.186
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1467-6443
pISSN - 0952-1909
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-6443.1993.tb00051.x
Subject(s) - militant , trade union , state (computer science) , factory (object oriented programming) , politics , resistance (ecology) , direct action , control (management) , work (physics) , consciousness , political action , action (physics) , political science , political economy , business , sociology , economics , management , engineering , international trade , law , philosophy , algorithm , ecology , computer science , biology , epistemology , programming language , mechanical engineering , quantum mechanics , physics
The state in Brazil not only built industrial plants in the mid twentieth century, but also established patterns of control and domination over the workers of these companies. State‐management purposes were to ‘mould’ a ‘Brazilian worker’‘for the nation’ and to extend control beyond the point of production. Evidence is presented to explain these strategies of domination and to show how the workers built their resistance, both at work or through trade union participation. This is developed into a discussion of the process of politicisation through trade union action in the state companies and the disagreements that arose between militant workers and workers with ‘factory consciousness’.