Foreword

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgments IX
3. Contents XI
4. Glossary XIII
5. Foreword XV
6. Preface – Leon Fink XXI
7. Preface to the English Edition XXIII
8. Introduction 1
9. PART I: Labor Courts in Brazil: problems of historiography and research
10. 1. Historiography of a “minor tribunal” 15
11. 2. Critique of the dualistic obsession: contracts and the law 45
12. 3. The Labor Courts and the Magistratura del Lavoro: Comparative Notes 68
13. PART II: Normative Powers and Urban and Rural Workers
14. 4. Agreements and Judgments: The Labor Courts in the “Long Year of 1963” 97
15. 5. The Act of Judging: Restrictions and Possibilities 140
16. 6. The “Mystique of Strikes” and the “Sovereignty of the Courts” 157
17. 7. “Class Justice” between “the fields and factory” 184
18. Conclusion 227
19. Sources and Archives 237
20. Bibliography 240
21. Index 255