Contracting freedom: the making of the law of labor in nineteenth-century Brazil
The research examines the shifting legal landscape of labor in Brazil from the period immediately following Independence (1822) until the formal abolition of slavery (1888). While the rise of contract and liberal reforms changed the legal lexicon of labor already in the first decade of Independent B...
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| Formato: | tesis doctoral |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2024 |
| País: | España |
| Recursos: | Universidad de Huelva (UHU) |
| Repositorio: | Arias Montano. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ariasmontano.uhu.es:10272/27423 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://hdl.handle.net/10272/27423 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palavra-chave: | Legal regulation of labor Slavery Migration Liberalism Nineteenth Century Regulación jurídica del trabajo Esclavitud Migración Liberalismo Siglo XIX 56 Ciencias Jurídicas y Derecho |
| Resumo: | The research examines the shifting legal landscape of labor in Brazil from the period immediately following Independence (1822) until the formal abolition of slavery (1888). While the rise of contract and liberal reforms changed the legal lexicon of labor already in the first decade of Independent Brazil, they did not erase the legal grammar of the old regime nor altered the plural dynamics of the sources of law and personal statuses, but even contributed to further expand and complexify it. This study then inquires the complexity and plurality of Brazilian labor landscape across four key dimensions: firstly, the diverse array of legal subjectivities, embracing workers with distinct legal statuses, including those who were free, freed, enslaved, nationals, foreigners; secondly, the varying temporal origins of legal sources, encompassing labor norms from the colonial period, national laws, law of slavery; thirdly, the intersection of different legal sectors, drawing labor norms from civil, commercial, and criminal law; and finally, the diverse moments of normative production, spanning from contractual practices to state regulations and judicial conflicts. The resulting picture is a singular mosaic that offers the possibility of reading from a local and empirical perspective some shared legal problems within the Atlantic space in the era of emancipation, such as the long coexistence between slavery and liberalism; the proliferation of special contractual legal regimes alongside the unification of the subject of law; and the remaking of punishment and work control under the spread of free labor ideologies. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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