Publicação: Rural unions and the struggle for land in Brazil
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Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Studies of Brazil's agricultural labor movement have generally neglected its relationship to the struggle for land, but this is neither fair nor accurate. Analyzing the rural labor movement's historical contributions to the land struggle in Brazil, this contribution has been organized into three main periods, emphasizing social relations, institutional activism and policy changes. It argues that despite the peculiarities of different historical contexts, rural labor consistently provoked protest against policies that privileged large landholders, whose concentration of power over land and labor resources continually worsened Brazil's ranking as one of the most unequal of nations. For more than half a century, the most constant opponent of this situation among the peasantry has been the National Confederation of Workers in Agriculture (CONTAG), a corporatist organization of rural labor unions founded in 1963.
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rural labor organizations, peasants, agrarian reform, land struggle, family farmers, Brazil
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Journal Of Peasant Studies. Abingdon: Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, v. 42, n. 6, p. 1109-1135, 2015.
