Racism and syndicalism : recognition, redistributions and political action by labor-unions about racism in Brazil / Racismo e sindicalismo : reconhecimento, redistribuição e ação politica das centrais sindicais acerca do racismo no Brasil (1983-2002)

AUTOR(ES)

Jair Batista da Silva

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2008

RESUMO

This dissertation explores how the two principal Brazilian trade unions (Central Única dos Trabalhadores and Força Sindical) address racism. The study utilized the theory of recognition, which argues that struggles for social recognition are linked to struggles for redistribution. Documentary research was directed at a comprehension of the relations between wider economic, political, and cultural conflicts and the inner workings of Brazilian syndicalism, to show how union activists conceive of racism and racial discrimination. The dissertation demonstrates that class struggles can, and should, combine with struggles for the recognition of social identities?especially anti-racism movements?in order to transform the traditional practices and political cultures of trade unions. To that end, the study also investigated conceptions of social class within the unions. Primary and secondary sources included resolutions of union congresses and plenary sessions, other union documents, books, theses, newspapers, and magazines. These sources show that, while Brazilian syndicalism has undergone profound change in recent years, union leaders are also being presented with a range of new demands that can significantly impact their own political culture: struggles for gender and racial equality, movements against the discrimination of homosexuals, et cetera, have the potential to both challenge and reinvent the unions? political and cultural traditions. Results of the study indicate that within these two trade unions, the anti-racism movement has gradually abandoned the class dimensions of its earlier initiatives to focus more narrowly on the general expansion of citizenship rights

ASSUNTO(S)

sindicatos sindicalismo - brasil reconhecimento social racial discrimination racismo - brasil syndicalism labor-unions racism discriminação racial social recognition

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