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Workers' representation insecurity in Brazil. Global forces, local stress.
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Summary (English)
In this essay, the intention is to raise some questions, suggest hypotheses for possible answers and provoke further debate. The author begins in chapter one by delineating the general conditions that favoured adversarial strategies in the 1980s, in chapter two, to a brief description of the changes in the 1990s, and then on to a scrutiny of the findings of a People's Security Survey (PSS) conducted in Brazil, in chapter 3. The PSS is a huge comparative endeavour devoted to the measurement of socio-economic and representation security in more than 15. The main hypothesis under investigation in the PSS is that unions in Brazil do not have a significant impact on workers' social-economic and representation security, precisely because of the crisis of representation discussed in the earlier parts of the paper.
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