The uses of Justice in the search for rights: strategies for workers’ demands in the factory city of Rio Tinto (Paraíba, 1959-1964)
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https://doi.org/10.5007/1984-9222.2010v2n3p261Keywords:
Labor rights, Workers, Rio Tinto Town-FactoryAbstract
This article aims to analyze the worker's labor claims in the Rio Tinto town-factory (PB). The lawsuits were filed in the Conciliation and Trial Court of João Pessoa and in the Rio Tinto Forum, and promptly became a new space of laborers demand and resistance in the 1950s and 1960s. Workers knew that the labor laws supported their claims and, thus, that this could be another way of fighting for their rights. The analyzed lawsuits show how employers and employees fought legally to redefine their relationship in face of the Consolidation of Labour Laws, between the years of 1959 and 1964, when the lawsuits became more frequent.
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