Labour Rights and the Killing of Workers during the Dictatorship (1972-1973): the Prosecution of the Barreto brothers.
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https://doi.org/10.5007/1984-9222.2014v6n11p91Keywords:
history and labor rights, history and resistance, history and dictatorshipAbstract
This article analyzes the indictment of two rural workers, who after winning a case in the Labour Court along with other workers were being threatened with death by the tenant of the Mill Matapiruma Low, in the municipality of Escada, Pernambuco. In the face of such threats, the worker Luís Inocêncio Barreto, with the support of the Rural Workers Union, denounced the tenant to the police and
military units. But what the documents show is that these are to treat them as subversive and tenant as a victim. After that, the police and the watchman of the mill workers carry an approach that will result in the death of one worker and the lookout itself, plus injuries to two policemen. The article analyzes how the delegate responsible for the investigating will change its assessment of the conflict.
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