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Informationen zum Autor Fernando Teixeira da Silva is professor of Brazilian history at the State University of Campinas. Alexandre Fortes is associate professor of contemporary history at the Rural Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Gillian McGillivray is associate professor in the Department of History at York University. Thomas D. Rogers is associate professor in the Department of History at Emory University. Klappentext This edited volume provides comparative and transnational histories of the working people of Brazil and the United States. The international group of historians' methodologically innovative chapters explore links, resonances, and divergences between US and Brazilian labor history. Zusammenfassung This edited volume provides comparative and transnational histories of the working people of Brazil and the United States. The international group of historians’ methodologically innovative chapters explore links, resonances, and divergences between US and Brazilian labor history. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction. Connections, Comparisons, Inspirations: Overcoming a Dichotomous View of the History of Labor in the United States and Brazil, Fernando Teixeira da Silva, Alexandre Fortes, Gillian McGillivray, and Thomas D. Rogers Part I: Immigration, Labor, and Feminism Chapter 1: Immigration and Militance: Notes on Italians in São Paulo and the United States, Michael M. Hall Chapter 2: International Feminist Connections in the Making of Labor Rights for Women, 1917-1937, Glaucia Cristina Candian Fraccaro Part II: New Deal, New State, and World War II Chapter 3: Labor's New Deal: Corporatism and Politics in the US and Brazil, Fernando Teixeira da Silva Chapter 4: Labor, Race, and Politics: US Views of Brazil in the Context of the Second World War, Alexandre Fortes Chapter 5: Social Peace in a Time of War: Labor Justice and Foreign Policy in World War II Brazil, Rebecca Herman Part III: The Cold War, Race, and Rural Workers Chapter 6: An Engagé Intellectual in Brazil: Robert Alexander's View of Brazilian Unionism during the Cold War, Larissa Rosa Corrêa Chapter 7: Doormen and the Individualization of Segregation in Brazil, Jerry Dávila Chapter 8: Real Labor Movements, Imagined Revolutions: The Northeastern Brazilian Sugar Zone Through US Eyes, 1955-1964, Gillian McGillivray and Thomas D. Rogers Postscript: Entangling Labor Histories, Barbara Weinstein About the Editors and Contributors ...
