Migration And The Making Of Industrial Sao Paulo

Author : Paulo Fontes
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822374293
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Migration and the Making of Industrial São Paulo written by Paulo Fontes and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 2008 and winner of the 2011 Thomas E. Skidmore Prize, Paulo Fontes's Migration and the Making of Industrial São Paulo is a detailed social history of São Paulo's extraordinary urban and industrial expansion. Fontes focuses on those migrants who settled in the suburb of São Miguel Paulista, which grew from 7,000 residents in the 1940s to over 140,000 two decades later. Reconstructing these migrants' everyday lives within a broad social context, Fontes examines the economic conditions that prompted their migration, their creation of an integrated identity and community, and their efforts to gain worker rights. Fontes challenges the stereotypes of Northeasterners as culturally backward, uneducated, violent, and unreliable, instead seeing them as a resourceful population with considerable social and political resolve. Fontes's investigations into Northeastern life in São Miguel Paulista yield a fresh understanding of São Paulo's incredible and difficult growth while outlining how a marginalized population exercised its political agency.

Author : James P. Woodard
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 146965637X
Total Pages : 543 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brazil's Revolution in Commerce written by James P. Woodard and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James P. Woodard's history of consumer capitalism in Brazil, today the world's fifth most populous country, is at once magisterial, intimate, and penetrating enough to serve as a history of modern Brazil itself. It tells how a new economic outlook took hold over the course of the twentieth century, a time when the United States became Brazil's most important trading partner and the tastemaker of its better-heeled citizens. In a cultural entangling with the United States, Brazilians saw Chevrolets and Fords replace horse-drawn carriages, railroads lose to a mania for cheap automobile roads, and the fabric of everyday existence rewoven as commerce reached into the deepest spheres of family life. The United States loomed large in this economic transformation, but American consumer culture was not merely imposed on Brazilians. By the seventies, many elements once thought of as American had slipped their exotic traces and become Brazilian, and this process illuminates how the culture of consumer capitalism became a more genuinely transnational and globalized phenomenon. This commercial and cultural turn is the great untold story of Brazil's twentieth century, and one key to its twenty-first.

Author : Alejandro de la Fuente
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107177626
Total Pages : 663 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Afro-Latin American Studies written by Alejandro de la Fuente and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-26 with total page 663 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the full range of humanities and social science scholarship on people of African descent in Latin America.

Author : Adele Nelson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520385209
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Forming Abstraction written by Adele Nelson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art produced outside hegemonic centers is often seen as a form of derivation or relegated to a provisional status. Forming Abstraction turns this narrative on its head. In the first book-length study of postwar Brazilian art and culture, Adele Nelson highlights the importance of exhibitionary and pedagogical institutions in the development of abstract art in Brazil. By focusing on the formation of the São Paulo Biennial in 1951; the early activities of artists Geraldo de Barros, Lygia Clark, Waldemar Cordeiro, Hélio Oiticica, Lygia Pape, and Ivan Serpa; and the ideas of critics like Mário Pedrosa, Nelson illuminates the complex, strategic processes of citation and adaption of both local and international forms. The book ultimately demonstrates that Brazilian art institutions and abstract artistic groups—and their exhibitions of abstract art in particular—served as crucial loci for the articulation of societal identities in a newly democratic nation at the onset of the Cold War.

Author : Alexandre Fortes
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031580176
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Second World War and the Rise of Mass Nationalism in Brazil written by Alexandre Fortes and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ruy Braga
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004277633
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of the Precariat: From Populism to Lulista Hegemony written by Ruy Braga and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making use of the theoretical tools of Marxist critical sociology, Ruy Braga proposes an innovative reading of the social history of Brazil – from Fordist populism to the Lulista hegemony – using the ‘politics of the Precariat’ as an analytical vector.

Author : Bryan Pitts
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520388364
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Until the Storm Passes written by Bryan Pitts and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-01-31 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Until the Storm Passes reveals how Brazil's 1964–1985 military dictatorship contributed to its own demise by alienating the civilian political elites who initially helped bring it to power. Based on exhaustive research conducted in nearly twenty archives in five countries, as well as on oral histories with surviving politicians from the period, this book tells the surprising story of how the alternatingly self-interested and heroic resistance of the political class contributed decisively to Brazil's democratization. As they gradually turned against military rule, politicians began to embrace a political role for the masses that most of them would never have accepted in 1964, thus setting the stage for the breathtaking expansion of democracy that Brazil enjoyed over the next three decades.

Author : Molly C. Ball
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 1683402812
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Navigating Life and Work in Old Republic São Paulo written by Molly C. Ball and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2020-11-23 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the experiences of São Paulo’s working class during Brazil’s Old Republic (1891–1930), showing how individuals and families adapted to forces and events such as urbanization, discrimination, migration, and World War I. In this unique study, Ball combines social and economic methods to present a robust historical analysis of everyday life along racial, ethnic, national, and gender lines. Drawing from both statistical data and primary sources such as letters, newspapers, and interview transcripts, Ball demonstrates how the nation’s coffee boom drew immigrants from Italy, Portugal, Germany, Lebanon, and northeastern Brazil. She examines the ways these workers responded to inflation; fluctuating immigration patterns; and labor market discrimination, which especially affected Afro-Brazilians, Portuguese immigrants, and women. This analysis emphasizes the family-centered nature of immigration to São Paulo in comparison with other immigrant destinations such as Buenos Aires and New York City. Ball’s rich scholarship considers how World War I exacerbated tensions and divisions within São Paulo’s working class, which resulted in a deeply segmented labor market by the time Getúlio Vargas came to power in 1930. Shedding light on many reasons why Brazil experienced slower industrial innovation than other countries during this era, Ball provides invaluable context for the region’s continued high inequality and sociocultural imbalances.

Author : Matthew P. Johnson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009428691
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hydropower in Authoritarian Brazil written by Matthew P. Johnson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-31 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely examination of hydropower in Brazil brings nuance to energy debates, centring social and environmental justice.

Author : Sjaak van der Velden
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538134616
Total Pages : 603 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Organized Labor written by Sjaak van der Velden and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-04-22 with total page 603 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the start of its existence organized labor has been the voice of workers to improve their economic, social, and political positions. Beginning with small and very often illegal groups of involved workers it grew to the million member organizations that now exist around the globe. It is studied from many different perspectives – historical, economic, sociological, and legal – but it fundamentally involves the struggle for workers’ rights, human rights and social justice. In an often hostile environment, organized labor has tried to make the world a fairer place. Even though it has only ever covered a minority of employees in most countries, its effects on their political, economic, and social systems have been generally positive. Despite growing repression of organized labor in recent years, membership numbers are still growing for the benefit of all employees, including the non-members. Historical Dictionary of Organized Labor: Fourth Edition makes the history of this important feature of life easily accessible. The reader is guided through a chronology, an introductory essay, 600 entries on the subject, appendixes with statistical material, and an extensive bibliography including Internet sites. This book gives a thorough introduction into past and present for historians, economists, sociologists, journalists, activists, labor union leaders, and anyone interested in the development of this important issue.