Industrial business class and the beginnings of modern social policies in Brazil

Abstract

The article describes the participation of FIESP in the creation of the institute for pensions of industrial workers (Instituto de Aposentadoria e Pensões dos Industriários) in the 1930's, amidst a scenario of streng thening of authoritarian politics and when Brazil becomes a more closed economy. The text also analyses changes in the business sector's perception of the social policy at the end of the "Estado Novo " [New State], period when the political presence of workers grows in a more open political framework.