Abstract
Asserting that the term corporatist is poorly suited and not very useful in describing the Brazilian case, the author employs an institutional approach to propose a typology that is polarized between and contractualist models of relations. The argument is that the Brazilian model is characteristically legislated and grounded on the analysis of what is called the three normative spaces of relations, that is, the law, collective contracts, and company norms defined unilaterally by the employer. Based on the division of labor of these normative spaces, the article shows (a) how the model has reproduced itself and ratified the subordination of social legislation to law and (b) how laws subordinate and inspire collective contracts (and even informal contracts) while also limiting and informing managers imaginations in the creation of norms defined unilaterally by companies.
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