Sociologia do trabalho no Brasil: entrevista com Lencio Martins Rodrigues

Leoncio Martins Rodrigues gave this interview on September 10, 2007, during a session in the course "Sociology Labor in Brazil," held at the Philosophy and Social Sciences Institute of Rio de Janeiro Federal University. The report approaches aspects of his personal and family life, his political formation, as well as his career as student, professor, and researcher in social sciences, especially relating to themes regarding work, unions, and political parties. It describes his strong connection to both USP and a group of professors, later becoming colleagues who had been under the academic orientation of Florestan Fernandes. It also brings to memory, in detail, procedures and difficulties of various investigations he carried out in factories and union congresses, the later became books and provoked debates.