📅 1 May 1943
Decree-Law 5,452 approved the Consolidation of Labor Laws (CLT), organizing many existing labor rules. Its exclusions left domestic service and much rural work outside key protections. Since...
📅 11 October 1945
Decree-Law 8,079 revised Article 7 of the CLT, listing domestic workers and rural workers among those to whom most provisions did not apply. The legal split was not written as a race clause, but it...
📅 2 March 1963
Law 4,214 set out a labor framework for rural workers, including employment relations and access to labor protections. Its passage recognized a large workforce long left outside the main urban labor...
📅 2 September 1846
On 2 September 1846 Francisco Rangel began an armed uprising near Magdaleno. The movement drew in hacendados, renters, peons, muleteers, enslaved people, and others facing economic and political...
