A ousadia da resistência: A luta dos trabalhadores da Ford contra 2800 demissões

• Main Author: Roberto Véras
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Centro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbra 2002-06-01
• Series: Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais
• Subjects: CUT – Unified Workers’ Central; Brazil; trade unions; labour relations; precarization of labour; collective rights
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/rccs/1326

This text analyzes the movement of the Ford workers at São Bernardo, São Paulo, against the company’s announcement of 2,800 dismissals in December of 1998. It discusses the conditions and possibilities provided by CUT unionism for resisting the ongoing processes in Brazil. The main trends point to the flexibilization of rights, the precarization of labour relations, the disempowerment of collective subjects which place themselves in an autonomous position, and, as a consequence, the disarticulation of the public space.