Political Discourses Around the Single Union Law and Conceptions about the Organisation of the World of Labour: From Historical to Current Dilemmas

Autor: Virgílio Amaral
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: Academic Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies.
ISSN: 2281-4612
2281-3993
DOI: 10.5901/ajis.2015.v4n3s1p262
Popis: 5th International Conference on Humanities and Social Sciences, 25-26 September, 2015, Rome, Italy The current research analyses political discourses around the controversy of the Single Union Law, which occurred in the post- April 25th revolutionary context, to understand how the contending parties built different conceptions about the arrangements of labour organisations. By reconstructing the meanings conveyed in the arguments, it is observed that each party invests some words – Unions, Freedom – with different meanings. Additionally, it is observed that each side tends to use certain rhetorical mechanisms as listed by Castro (2002), Amaral (2013) and Amaral & Pereira (2014). The conclusion provides a historical and ideological overview of the different main conceptions and dilemmas yielded in the discourse analysis provided, along with the dilemmas that labour unions are confronted with in the current times, namely considering the issue of job insecurity.
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