Brazilian Labour History - New Perspectives in Global Context

Contributions to this volume examine Brazilian labour history, contextualising their research in the field of global labour history.

List of contents

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�80s Henrique Espada Lima and Fabiane Popinigis; 3. Revolutionary syndicalism and reformism in Rio de Janeiro's labour movement (1906�20) 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 S鉶 Paulo (1945�64) 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 Corr阛.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Paulo Fontes, Paulo Fortes Fontes
• Assisted by: Paulo Fontes (Editor), Fontes Paulo (Editor), Alexandre Fortes (Editor), David Mayer (Editor), David (Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis Mayer (Editor), Mayer David (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2019
• EAN: 9781108450898
• ISBN: 978-1-108-45089-8
• No. of pages: 270
• Series: International Review of Social; International Review of Social History Supplements
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Brazil, HISTORY / Social History, History of the Americas, Industrialisation & Industrial History, Industrialisation and industrial history