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Working Women, Working Men
Sao Paulo & the Rise of Brazil’s Industrial Working Class, 1900–1955
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Working Women, Working Men
Sao Paulo & the Rise of Brazil’s Industrial Working Class, 1900–1955
About this book
In Working Women, Working Men, Joel Wolfe traces the complex historical development of the working class in SÃ o Paulo, Brazil, Latin America's largest industrial center. He studies the way in which SÃ o Paulo's working men and women experienced Brazil's industrialization, their struggles to gain control over their lives within a highly authoritarian political system, and their rise to political prominence in the first half of the twentieth century.
Drawing on a diverse range of sources—oral histories along with union, industry, and government archival materials—Wolfe's account focuses not only on labor leaders and formal Left groups, but considers the impact of grassroots workers' movements as well. He pays particular attention to the role of gender in the often-contested relations between leadership groups and thee rank and file. Wolfe's analysis illuminates how various class and gender ideologies influenced the development of unions, industrialists' strategies, and rank-and-file organizing and protest activities.
This study reveals how workers in Sà o Paulo maintained a local grassroots social movement that, by the mid–1950s, succeeded in seizing control of Brazil's state-run official unions. By examining the actions of these workers in their rise to political prominence in the 1940s and 1950s, this book provides a new understanding of the sources and development of populist politics in Brazil.
Drawing on a diverse range of sources—oral histories along with union, industry, and government archival materials—Wolfe's account focuses not only on labor leaders and formal Left groups, but considers the impact of grassroots workers' movements as well. He pays particular attention to the role of gender in the often-contested relations between leadership groups and thee rank and file. Wolfe's analysis illuminates how various class and gender ideologies influenced the development of unions, industrialists' strategies, and rank-and-file organizing and protest activities.
This study reveals how workers in Sà o Paulo maintained a local grassroots social movement that, by the mid–1950s, succeeded in seizing control of Brazil's state-run official unions. By examining the actions of these workers in their rise to political prominence in the 1940s and 1950s, this book provides a new understanding of the sources and development of populist politics in Brazil.
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Publisher
Duke University Press BooksYear
1993Print ISBN
9780822313472, 9780822313304eBook ISBN
9780822379812Table of contents
- Contents
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgments
- List of Acronyms
- Introduction
- Chapter One. Industrialization and the Birth of São Paulo's Working-Class Movement, 1900-1924
- Chapter Two. "Order and Progress" and Revolution in Industrial São Paulo, 1925-1935
- Chapter Three. Class Struggle versus Conciliação: The Estado Novo, 1935-1942
- Chapter Four. World War II and the Struggle for Citizenship, 1942-1945
- Chapter Five. The Industrialists’ Democracy in São Paulo, 1945-1950
- Chapter Six. Factory Commissions and the Triumph of São Paulo’s Working-Class Movement, 1950-1955
- Epilogue. From Union Democracy to Democratic Politics?
- Appendix: Interviews and Oral Histories
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index