Trade unions in Brazil first emerged in the late 19th century with the expansion of manufacturing and the influx of immigrant workers, especially from Spain, Italy and Germany, who were influenced by socialist and anarchist movements in their home countries.
The first organized movements emerged in the context of strikes and revolts by factory workers, mainly in industrialised urban areas such as São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.
In the 1930s, the government of Getúlio Vargas implemented policies that recognized unions and granted some rights to workers, such as regulating working hours and creating the Labor Court.
Since then, the labour movement in Brazil has continued to play an important role in the fight for better working conditions, decent wages and social rights.
In 1929, the lieutenants joined the Liberal Alliance, which also had the support of Alberto Pasqualini, opposing the milk coffee politics, which guaranteed oligarchs from Minas Gerais and São Paulo would alternated as president of the republic.
During the 1950s and 1960s, labourism became the main branch of the moderate left in Brazilian politics, attracting sectors and voters who rejected both right-wing economics and communism.
Communism exists where reactionary and exploitative capitalism pontificates and disappears in communities and countries that are well organized from a social and human point of view.Still in the 1960s, labourism had already experienced splits.