ABSTRACT
Analyses of corporatism in Brazil tend either to focus on the works of such intellectuals as Oliveira Viana and Azevedo Amaral, who are regarded as ideologues of the New State, or to emphasize the influence of the Italian labour charter and Italian Fascism on the Brazilian regime, with a few references to the possible influences of the Portuguese New State on its Brazilian peer. In the Brazil of Vargas, however, those intellectuals who defended corporatism as an alternative for the future were very varied and the debates much broader and more diversified than a lot of existing studies on this issue suggest. In this chapter, we will analyze the range of discourses and influences on Brazilian corporatism. These go beyond the works of Oliveira Viana and Azevedo Amaral or their possible Italian and Portuguese influences, and include references to Mihail Manoilescu, the French Solidarists, Roosevelt’s New Deal, and the papal encyclicals Rerum Novarum and Quadragesimo Anno.
