The theme of repression against workers in the dictatorship from the contributions of the Social History of Labor: A reading of the CNV's final report

Abstract

The article analyzes the way in which repression of workers in the post-1964 dictatorship was approached by the final report of the National Commission of Truth (CNV), published in 2014. The analysis takes into account the contributions of social history of work to the study of workers' experiences between 1964 and 1985, such as the expanded treatment of the analytical category "workers", historical understanding of the dictatorial regime, repression and the impacts of new labor legislation. The article identifies the disputes of memories about the dictatorial past present in the CNV's own report and points to the relevance of new research that emphasizes the experiences of the subalterns during the dictatorship, a fact that influences all the production of historical knowledge and its different uses, such as School education and repair policies.