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2
March
1963

The Rural Worker Statute establishes a framework for rural labor rights

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📅 2 March 1963 📍 Brazil

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 regime. The statute marked a change in law, not the immediate end of coercive conditions or effective enforcement in the countryside. It preceded rural workers’ full constitutional equalization by decades.

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rural workers

farm employers

João Goulart

Organizations in this Event

National Congress

Ministry of Labor