Rest for Those Who Can Afford It: Why Brazil's 6x1 Reform Misses the Point

Brazil takes roughly a generation to move on labor reform — and when it does, it lands short of what workers demanded. From the first major strike demanding an 8-hour workday (1907) to the codification of that limit in national labor law (1943), 37 years passed. From 48 hours weekly, with Sundays as the only guaranteed rest, to the 1988 Constitution's reduction to 44 hours, another 45 years went…