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The impact of the economic crisis on labor rights in Brazil

Year: 2019
Type: article
Abstract: This article carries out bibliographical research and analyzes the situation of the Brazilian workers in the context of the current national economic crisis, demonstrating an increase in unemployment rates after the approval of the 2017 labor reform by the National Congress. The economic analysis shows that the reform (considered here a counter-reform) was a measure of counter-trend planned by the capitalists to cope with the fall in profit rates. The trade unions’ struggle was not able to avoid the regressive changes in the Brazilian labor legislation, which deteriorate the labor contracts and the living conditions of the working class.
Language: English
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2969425818
FWCI: 1.905
Cites: 9
Cited by: 6
Related to: 10