This paper addresses the following question: how can we reconcile workers` rights and social protection with firms` competitiveness and productivity? In Latin America, there is an intense debate about the perverseness of the labor law (claimed to be harmful both to workers and to firms) and, in...

Minas e mineiros de carvão no Rio Grande do Sul -- Análise quantitativa dos processos trabalhistas das minas entre 1946 e 1954 -- Desertores e insalubres : os mineiros tentam inverter a "ordem das coisas" -- As greves de 1945 a 1946 -- A criação do DACM e a utopia da encampação -- Para...