No Longer Part of the Family: Domestic Workers at Brazil's National Constituent Assembly, 1987–1988.
In this article, I analyze how the Brazilian domestic workers' movement lobbied the National Constituent Assembly (Assembleia Nacional Constituinte) to be granted the full slate of labor rights afforded to formally employed workers in the 1988 constitution, the crowning achievement of the country's...
| Publicado en: | Hispanic American Historical Review Vol. 105; no. 2; pp. 301 - 331 |
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