História do trabalho dos caminhoneiros no Brasil: profissão, jornada e ações políticas

Abstract

In the history of Brazil truck drivers have been marked by excessive working hours and by significant levels of informal work. The history of profe ssional truck drivers should be perceived from the preponderance which has existed since the origins of their work in small businesses and coexistence between the employees and the self-employed drivers. The intense competition of the market in road haulag e is one of the reasons that explains the working poor, either informally before the law and in irregular supply of labor. And these are general conditions that place the highest incidences of diseases arising from work and involvement in accidents. Research in various documentary sources indicate all these statements on the occupational history, and report that the truck had diversified forms of claims, whether through strikes and protests in several that have been identified. Characteristic of professional history is also in its fragmentation, is the performance in different types of unions, in parallel entities, in autonomous differences between drivers, employees with pay for time and employees by commission. In writing this history interpretations of various types of documentary sources provide evidence for these findings