Fascism as a model: incorporating the “Carta del Lavoro" into the brazilian way for the authoritarian corporatism of the 1930s

• Main Author: Fabio Gentile
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade Estadual de Londrina 2014-06-01
• Series: Mediações: Revista de Ciências Sociais
• Subjects: Corporativismo; Fascismo; Autoritarismo; Era vargas; Carta del lavoro.
• Online Access: http://www.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/mediacoes/article/view/19857

The debate about the influence of fascist corporatism in the “Vargas Era” is polarized. It features a confrontation between some who support the thesis that the labor legislation of the 1930s was a mere copy of the “Carta del lavoro” and others who want to liberate Brazil’s law from the Italian model. In this study, we intend to follow a different methodological and conceptual route. Our objective is to open a dialogue between the debate about fascism as a “phenomenon in progress” and the process of the “shared circulation” of ideas at the global level between the two world wars to analyze how the “Carta del lavoro” was received and redrafted in the Brazilian way for the authoritarian corporatism of the 1930s.