| Abstrakt: |
The present thesis concerns the history of the Portuguese labour movement in the shipbuilding and repair company Setenave, located in Mitrena, Setúbal, during a period ranging from approximately 1974 to 1989. It seeks to demonstrate the central role played by that movement in the wider history of labour relations in Portugal, from workers' control, to social pacts and industrial reconversion. As one of the strategic industrial units during the Portuguese revolution of 1974-75, Setenave took part in that period's major events, making it an important case study for the revolutionary process. This thesis analyses the Workers' Commissions, labour protests, workers' control, the role of the administrations, the influence of political parties, political programs and projects. By analyzing the imposition of mechanisms of consent creation and repression, as well as the responses given by the workers and their labour, trade union and political leaderships to the postrevolutionary relation of forces in Portuguese society, this thesis attempts to demonstrate Setenave's pioneering and central role in the establishment of the so-called 'social pact', arguing that the outcome of this dispute led to the emergence of a new paradigm of liberalization and precarization of the national industrial relations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
