“The one Who has job, has benefits”: Protective Legislation in trade union’s view under “Labor Republic”period

Abstract

This article is a result of a research that aimed to identify the occurrence of proposals in order to extend citizenship over the trade unions’ agenda in the 1950s. Considering that the presence of what Wanderley Guilherme dos Santos called “regulated citizenship” was still very stressed in the country in that period, the citizenship extension meant the improvement of social policy to segments that belonged outside the formal labor market, including mechanisms of protection for the unemployed. Based on the analysis of the sources from trade union´s press and congress we researched, it was possible to infer that such formulations had no significant relevance on the unions’ agenda. They weren’t, however, completely absent from the trade unions’ concerns, especially the ones related to the maintenance and improvement of social policies to the formal market included
workers.