As grandes corporações, a repressão estatal e o ataque aos direitos trabalhistas no Brasil: do golpe de 1964 ao “Milagre Econômico”

Abstract

A much-debated issue within the subject of military dictatorships is the great oppression. In the case of Brazil, investigations were carried out that resulted in a report made by the National Truth Commission (2011-2014) that points out all the violence of the time and mentions those involved, both the military and civilians. The objective of this work is to understand the close and fundamental relationship between the big business – Brazilian and international – in the policies of repression of the Brazilian regime between the 1960s and 1970s, in view of its economic purposes, with great impact especially on labor rights. The main question is how have large corporations – especially multinationals – helped build a repressive regime in Brazil? The companies that will be studied are both national, such as Grupo Globo and Banco Bradesco and Itaú, and international, such as automakers Fiat, General Motors and Volkswagen. It is necessary to understand why support for the military was positive for them and how this adherence to the repressive regime impacted the lives of Brazilian workers, finally showing that these companies would still continue to support the government while it was happening. In other words, it is necessary to understand how large corporations, national and multinational, took advantage of the Brazilian civil-military regime to profit from what would be called "Economic Miracle", especially striking in the early 1970s. The collected data was obtained through a qualitative research and the descriptive method.