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Rural worker; Labor Legislation; Social change; Land Reform.
This project proposes to study the Rural Worker Statute, named by Law No. 4,214, of 1963, authored by Deputy Fernando Ferrari, of the Partido Trabalhista Brasileiro of Rio Grande do Sul, which dealt with labor regulations in the countryside from of several main themes, such as the relationship between the rural worker and the boss (minimum wage payment, paid vacation, work hygiene, among others), the law and the rule applied to the union activity and the systematization of a Social Security fund only for the rural worker. To this end, we will approach the RWS in its time (1954 - 1964) from two related dimensions: 1) its congressional procedure (there were two defeated attempts to protocol the Bill in 1957, and the procedure started in 1960 was victorious). and completed in 1963), all available through documentation already obtained; 2) the debate about its meaning in the political environment in which it was processed, having been a time of theoretical mobilization of the intellectuals who wrote about development and social change between 1954 and 1964, a decisive environment in that it had as one of its central axes. the key to agrarian labor.