Brazilian Workers' ABC Class Conflict and Alliances in Modern Sï¿½o Paulo

Name: Brazilian Workers' ABC Class Conflict and Alliances in Modern Sï¿½o Paulo
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ISBN: 9780807843680

ISBN-10: 0807843687

ISBN-13: 9780807843680

Edition: 1992

Authors: John D. French

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John French analyzes the emergence of the Brazilian system of politics and labor relations between 1900 and 1953 in the industrial municipalities of Santo Andre, Sao Bernardo do Campo, and Sao Caetano do Sul. These municipalities, which constitute the so-called ABC region of greater Sao Paolo, were made famous in the late 1970s as a result of a series of strikes by militant autoworkers. French challenges a scholarly consensus that has portrayed Brazilian populism as a "demobilizing" experience in which workers and their leaders were seduced and co-opted by charismatic politicians while being subjected to pervasive domination by the state. This revisionist, grass-roots view of Brazil's…

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List price: $60.00
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 5/1/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 406
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Abbreviations


Introduction Workers and Populism


Past and Present in the Brazilian Labor Movement



Industrialization and the Crisis of the Old Order, 1900-1945



The Rise and Decline of Revolutionary Unionism, 1906-1933



Workers and the Search for Allies, 1917-1935: Union Legalization and the Politics of Labor



Workers, Industrialists, and the State



Industrial Workers and the Birth of the Populist Republic, 1945-1946



The Populist Gamble of Getulio Vargas



Popular Getulismo and Working-Class Organization



Reading a Strike: Direct Action in Early 1946



We Have Reached the Age of Consent: Labor and the State



The Promise and Pitfalls of Democracy, 1947-1953



Workers and the Rise of Adhemarista Populism in Sao Paulo



A Free Workers' Movement in a Constitutional Democracy



The Election of 1950 and the Consolidation of the Populist Republic


Conclusion Workers and Populists: The Terms of Alliance


Notes


Index