Work-related diseases in Brazil in the context of the public policies created to the worker (1920-1950)

• Autor(a) principal: Almeida, Anna Beatriz de Sá
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Mundos do Trabalho
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/mundosdotrabalho/article/view/1984-9222.2015v7n13p65

http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/1984-9222.2014v7n13p65This article is about the history of work-related diseases in Brazil (1920-1950) in the context of the history of work and public policies created to the workers. It will be focused on working conditions and health of the workers from the turn of the 19th century to the 20th century and specially from 1930, with Getúlio Vargas regime politics of work. We will analyze the history of work-related diseases and medicine in Brazil, in the period from 1920 to 1950, highlighting the numerous social groups (workers, businessmen, physicians, experts, judges, lawyers …) who engaged in this process. Political powers, social and economic issues and medical knowledge interacted with the most diverse cultural traditions. It was necessary to define what would be considered as “work-related diseases”, these definitions that have been modified along the historical process, always permeated by the interests and demands from the social groups involved. In addition to debates and medical supplies, we will analyse examples of compensation procedures which decided for or against the worker’s claims and their families that tuberculosis was disease resulting from the work.