Teachers' strikes in brazil (2003-2022): a basis for a theoretical-methodological discussion:

Brazilian public school’ teachers employed by state and municipal governments carried out over 2,500 strikes between 2003 and 2022. The number of teacher strikes grew dramatically after 2011, primarily due to increased action by these workers in smaller and medium-sized cities, especially in the Nor...

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Autores: Gindin, Julián, Casco, Mariano, Becher , Pablo Ariel
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Nove de Julho (UNINOVE)
Repositorio:Eccos Revista Científica (Online)
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.periodicos.uninove.br:article/27180
Acceso en línea:https://periodicos.uninove.br/eccos/article/view/27180
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:greves
metodologia das ciências sociais
sindicalismo docente
strikes
social science methodology
teacher unions
huelgas
metodología de las ciencias sociales
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Sumario:Brazilian public school’ teachers employed by state and municipal governments carried out over 2,500 strikes between 2003 and 2022. The number of teacher strikes grew dramatically after 2011, primarily due to increased action by these workers in smaller and medium-sized cities, especially in the Northeast region. There are significant differences among states both in the number of strikes and in the number of strike days. The data on teacher strikes in Brazil, along with academic studies and complementary information on teacher unionism in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and the United States, allows us to make some considerations regarding how to explain strike movements. These movements cannot be fully explained by a general model based on the economic context and political exchange theory, as some researches have suggested. A satisfactory study of strikes requires employing more explanatory elements, making the relationships between these elements and the strikes themselves more complex, and, fundamentally, considering that the particular historical process determines how different political-economic contexts and broader social processes combine in particular ways to determine the occurrence (and non-occurrence) of strikes.