Justice and job: Fortaleza labor processes during the 1930’s and 1940’s

Abstract

This paper analyses job legal processes in Fortaleza Labour Court Conciliation and Judgement during 1930 and 1940 decades, encompassing several professional job categories such as bakers, servants, workers, commercial workers, auction aides and white colars in order to understand job conflicts, intolerance and negotiations among boss, workers and labour judges, taking into consideration not only the use or not of job legislation, but also the meanings of Labour Justice for the local society. The methodology employed historical discussion about the theme by situating Labour Justice, its implementation, functioning and relationships with job market. Also, oral history is used as a tool to theme discussion based on reports able to give evidence to (re)meanings of job relationship networkings among labour justice, boss and worker. Local media also contributed to the understanding of these complex job inter-relationships. Keywords: Justice. Job. Trade union. Job legal considerations.