The social issue as an aporetic one and a potential source for a legitimacy crisis of the capitalist system has mobilized sociological thinking and other fields such as the political and the economic.The current paper is the discourse analysis from Brazilian parliamentary elites' speeches concerning labor legislation drafts presented at the Parliament during the emergence of the twentieth century capitalism. Seventy-three speeches from Brazilian parliament members and 4,490 drafts during the period of a decade were analyzed. The social issue in Parliament politics, particularly the labor one, is seen as a relational dimension with different approaches on the role of State, the economic model and social movements.
social issue; State; labor; parliamentary elites