title: [Social Control, work world and the National Conferences of Health at the turn of the 20th century].
abstract: The practice of social control in the field of the worker's health has been facing barriers imposed by the globalization and the restructuring in the work world, either because of the weakness of the workers' unions, or by the absence of representatives of the various workers categories without formal work bond, belonging to the expressive informal/precarious market. In the beginning of the 20th century, big National Conferences of Health were marked by political contexts with significant differences, favoring the lack of articulation among the representative bases that were engaged mainly in fragmented demands and particulars interests. To contemplate on as the legitimate representation of the workers' classes is configured, either belonging to the formal market, or informal/precarious, is necessary against the evidences that the current arrangement is impeding the deepening of the specific worker's health issues.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Medicina Preventiva, Escola Paulista de Medicina, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, 04038-034 São Paulo SP. franlacaz@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Francisco Antonio de Castro
authors.initials: FA
authors.lastname: Lacaz
authors.forename: Solange Maria Ribeiro
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Flório
mesh_terms: D003226:Congresses as Topic; D006262:Health; D006801:Humans; D016272:Occupational Health; D012926:Social Control, Formal