Paulo Fontes, Alexandre Fortes, David Mayer (Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis, Amsterdam)
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.
This volume examines Brazilian labour history, offering articles that enter into conscious dialogue with the debates and findings of scholarship in ot...
This book reexamines the socioeconomic and political transformation that occurred in Brazil during the 1940s as a result of the Second World War. Integrating social and political history, the author explores the adoption of new policies around state-sponsored industrialisation, the consolidation of Brazilian labour law institutions, and the expanded influence of ‘racial democracy’ in the country's domestic and foreign policy. The book argues that the nature of the Brazilian state and its definitions of citizenship were redefined both from ‘the top’ – as a result of Brazil’s...
This book reexamines the socioeconomic and political transformation that occurred in Brazil during the 1940s as a result of the Second World War. I...
