“Trabalhadores do Brasil” : ensino de história, trabalhismo e (des) proteção social (Maranhão/Brasil)

Abstract

This research analyze the theme of laborism and social protection in the teaching of history in Basic Education. It explores the process of organization of the working classe for the purpose of social protection through mutualism and the formation of laborism in Brazil during the government of Getúlio Vargas, with the (lack of) protection of workers over the following decades. It then examines how Brazil’s main contemporary educational legislation, especially the BNCC, is situated within the context of neoliberalism, and ho this directl impacts education, particularly the education of the working class. The study als analyzes how the theme of laborism is addressed in history and geography textbooks in Maranhão from the 1980s onward. Finally, it presents the development process of the educational product: a supplementary textbook on labor rights in Brazil, which covers laborism from the Vargas era to recent transformations in the world of work, highlighting the deterioration of labor relations that affects workers' lives and jeopardizes the future of new generations.