Brazilian Labour History: New Perspectives in Global Context

ISBN-13: 9781108450898 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 270 str.

Paulo Fontes;Alexandre Fortes;David Mayer (Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiede

Opis

This volume examines Brazilian labour history, offering articles that enter into conscious dialogue with the debates and findings of scholarship in other world regions. Contributions engage with issues such as free and unfree labour in the nineteenth-century Amazon, the transnational contexts of urban sex work, and revolutionary syndicalism in Rio.

Spis treści

Brazilian labour history in global context: some introductory notes Paulo Fontes, Alexandre Fortes and David Mayer; 1. Free and unfree labour in the nineteenth-century Brazilian Amazon Adalberto Paz; 2. Maids, clerks, and the shifting landscape of labour relations in Rio de Janeiro, 1830s–1880s Henrique Espada Lima and Fabiane Popinigis; 3. Revolutionary syndicalism and reformism in Rio de Janeiro's labour movement (1906–1920) Claudio Batalha; 4. Between Rio's red-light district and the league of nations: immigrants and sex work in 1920s Rio de Janeiro Cristiana Schettini; 5. From the streets to the government: socialist militants and labour law in Brazil Aldrin A. S. Castellucci and Benito B. Schmidt; 6. World War II and Brazilian workers: populism at the intersections between national and global histories Alexandre Fortes; 7. The local and the global: neighbourhoods, workers and associations in São Paulo (1945–1964) Paulo Fontes; 8. Sugarcane workers in search of justice: rural labour through the lens of the state Christine Rufino Dabat and Thomas D. Rogers; 9. Looking at the southern cone: American trade unionism in the Cold War military dictatorships of Brazil and Argentina Larissa Rosa Corrêa.