The Consolidation of Labor Laws codifies urban labor protections

Decree-Law 25 established federal heritage listing (tombamento), defining national heritage through historical, archaeological, ethnographic, bibliographic, and artistic value. In practice, early...

Decree-Law 37 of 2 December 1937 dissolved Brazil’s political parties under the Estado Novo dictatorship. The Frente Negra Brasileira had converted itself into a political party in 1936; it could no...

Decree-Law 406 reorganized rules for foreign entry and residence, including the operation of national immigration quotas and requirements for visas. It extended a restrictive framework that had been...

Decree-Law 1,402 established procedures for union recognition, registration, representation, and contributions. The Vargas regime recognized unions within a state-controlled framework, restricting...

Decree-Law 2,162 instituted a statutory minimum wage and set regional schedules. A wage floor recognized workers as people with claims on employers, but protections depended on which sectors and...

Abdias do Nascimento founded the Teatro Experimental do Negro (TEN) in Rio de Janeiro on 13 October 1944. The organization challenged the exclusion and stereotyped casting of Black performers while...

Decree-Law 7,967 established immigration rules and stated that policy should preserve and develop in Brazil’s ethnic composition the “most convenient” characteristics of European ancestry. Its...

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...

The first issue of Quilombo: vida, problemas e aspirações do negro appeared on 9 December 1948, linked to the Teatro Experimental do Negro. Under Abdias do Nascimento’s coordination, the periodical...

Law 1,390, sanctioned on 3 July 1951, classified certain acts motivated by racial or color prejudice as criminal contraventions. The law followed public exposure of discrimination, including the...