Dados is one of the most widely-read social sciences journals in Latin America. Created in 1966, it publishes innovative works, originating from academic research, by Brazilian and foreign authors. Edited by IESP-UERJ, it aims to reconcile scientific rigor and academic excellence with an emphasis on public debate based on the analysis of substantive issues of society and politics.
Dados vol. 32 n. 1 Rio de Janeiro 1989
Abstract
This essay examines the internal and external dimensions of national labor administration under the democratic regime installed in Brazil in 1985. Using a disaggregated analysis of these dimensions that highlights the multiple levels and organizational features of the new democratic labor relations system, the essay contrasts the strategies adopted under the Samey administration with the general character and content of Brazilian labor administration since the 1930's, when the state first began to take an active role in structuring the labor relations system. External factors contributing to and working against the new strategy are highlighted in order to add contextual depth to the analysis, to wich is added a microanalytic survey of the key organizational, budgetary, and personnel features of the current labor administration network. The results of this examination prompt the conclusions that, certain obstacles and contradictions notwithstanding, a major effort, has been made to institutionalize a democratic labor relations system after a long tradition of exclusionary state corporatist approaches, something which if uncertain in its present phase, may eventually provide an important element in the process of democratic regime consolidation.
Plus Ça Change? A Administração Nacional do Trabalho e a Democracia no Brasil, 1985-1987
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