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This chapter intends to stress the significant political experience of shop-floor workers’ organization at Volkswagen in the Brazilian main industrial district, ABC paulista. The articulation of workers within companies has guaranteed the legitimacy of trade union resistance to the authoritarianism of management and the political regime in the period of military governments in the 1960s and 1970s. More recently, under pressure from flexibilization and the precariousness of labor relations, unions and factory committees, like in VW’s case, have been demonstrating the possibility of using this power to defend employment and a decent work agenda, and, at the same time, it can be an example of interaction in international networks for the establishment of certain standards of labor regulation that can be applied to a transnational context.

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