Limits and scope of Estado Novo advertisement for national mobilization during World War II

Abstract

The paper shows some limits and scope of the national mobilization propaganda, during World War II, as a possibility for reflection about the relations established between state and working class and also about the possible causes of the weakening of the Estado Novo dictatorship, from the analysis of the labor lawsuits filed at the Conciliation and Judgment Boards of Belo Horizonte between 1939 and 1945 and of the texts published by Revista do Trabalho and Estado de Minas newspaper, during the same period.

Keywords

• world war ii
• labor justice
• workers