The workers’ movement and the Workers’ Associations in São Paulo

Abstract

This article attempts to reconstruct arepresentative experience of the 1970s and 1980sin order to revive organizational practices that havefallen into disuse, whether it be because of thecounter-offensive of capital, whose need to expandexploitation is only possible with the fragmentationand demobilization of the workforce, or becauseof the return of a form of political action thatprivileged instutional channels and the continuity ofthe existing order.