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Paradoxes of the brazilian trade unionism: CUT and the rural workers

This paper analyses the rural trade unionism in Brazil on the last three decades, focusing on its relation with CUT and discusses the expressive growth of rural associativism inside CUT, reflecting on the reasons that are leading the greatest Brazilian central trade union to shelter such a large contingent of rural worker members in the set of its unionized basis.

Brazilian Trade Unionism; Rural Trade Unionism; Rural Working Class; Central Labour Federation (CUT); Union Density; Family Farmers


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