Trabalhadores da construção civil e justiça do trabalho durante a ditadura empresarial-militar em Alagoas

Abstract

This work intends to analyze the time frame between 1964 and 1975, during the corporate-military dictatorship in Brazil. It has as its scope the conditions of existence and labor of the Brazilian society, which has changed significantly because of the political and economic project of the regime. Our approach aims to understand the role of Brazilian entrepreneurs – especially in the business of construction industry – in the military coup and the dictatorship, which have generated a business profit maximization while the lower social classes were affected by the high inflation rates and unemployment. The construction industry was the economic branch that has grown the most during the dictatorship years, taking advantage of public policies based on the finance major construction projects and by exploitation and health negligence of its workers. In this scenario, where the dictatorship’s class nature is placed at the center of the discussion, we aim to analyze how the working class has faced the implementation of the political-economic project. Considering that the vindication mechanisms and class entities were hampered, the Labor Justice has developed as a space of disputes between employers and employees. It is necessary, therefore, to investigate the infrastructure and organization of this Justice, moving towards an institutional history in which, instead of ending in itself, contributes to understanding how the legal and institutional framework changes the course of worker’s struggle through the use of its spaces.