Brazilian Steel Town

Brazilian Steel Town
Title Brazilian Steel Town PDF eBook
Author Massimiliano Mollona
Publisher Berghahn Books
Pages 334
Release 2019-11-04
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1789204348

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Volta Redonda is a Brazilian steel town founded in the 1940s by dictator Getúlio Vargas on an ex-coffee valley as a powerful symbol of Brazilian modernization. The city’s economy, and consequently its citizen’s lives, revolves around the Companha Siderurgica Nacional (CSN), the biggest industrial complex in Latin America. Although the glory days of the CSN have long passed, the company still controls life in Volta Redonda today, creating as much dispossession as wealth for the community. Brazilian Steel Town tells the story of the people tied to this ailing giant – of their fears, hopes, and everyday struggles.

Brazil's Steel City

Brazil's Steel City
Title Brazil's Steel City PDF eBook
Author Oliver Dinius
Publisher Stanford University Press
Pages 350
Release 2010-10-01
Genre History
ISBN 080477580X

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Brazil's Steel City presents a social history of the National Steel Company (CSN), Brazil's foremost state-owned company and largest industrial enterprise in the mid-twentieth century. It focuses on the role the steelworkers played in Brazil's social and economic development under the country's import substitution policies from the early 1940s to the 1964 military coup. Counter to prevalent interpretations of industrial labor in Latin America, where workers figure above all as victims of capitalist exploitation, Dinius shows that CSN workers held strategic power and used it to reshape the company's labor regime, extracting impressive wage gains and benefits. Dinius argues that these workers, and their peers in similarly strategic industries, had the power to undermine the state capitalist development model prevalent in the large economies of postwar Latin America.

Steel Town Adivasis

Steel Town Adivasis
Title Steel Town Adivasis PDF eBook
Author Christian Strümpell
Publisher Taylor & Francis
Pages 315
Release 2024-06-07
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1040034861

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Steel Town Adivasis: Industry and Inequality in Eastern India presents an analysis of class formation in the industrial town, Rourkela in the eastern Indian state Odisha, and the ways this process relates to regional ethnicity and caste. This study is based on long-term ethnographic research conducted in the 2000s and oral histories covering the period from the inception of the steel plant, and it focusses on the region’s ‘tribes’, indigenous people or Adivasis who lost their land when the Government of India established a large steel plant in Rourkela in the 1950s. The book will be of interest to anthropologists, sociologists, historians interested in industrial labour and work, in class, caste, Adivasis, ethnicity and their dynamic entanglement, as well as students and activists. Print edition not for sale in South Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Bhutan)

Anthropologies of Class

Anthropologies of Class
Title Anthropologies of Class PDF eBook
Author James G. Carrier
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 247
Release 2015
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 1107087414

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A study of class and inequality from an anthropological perspective, bringing together an international team of researchers.

Workers and Labour in a Globalised Capitalism

Workers and Labour in a Globalised Capitalism
Title Workers and Labour in a Globalised Capitalism PDF eBook
Author Maurizio Atzeni
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages 264
Release 2013-11-25
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 1137361344

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An introduction to work and society for undergraduate and postgraduate students. This new text brings together international experts on work and employment from a range of disciplines to debate key themes and issues related to work in a globalised economy.

Worldwide Mobilizations

Worldwide Mobilizations
Title Worldwide Mobilizations PDF eBook
Author Don Kalb
Publisher Berghahn Books
Pages 256
Release 2018-06-11
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1785339079

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The past decades have seen significant urban insurrections worldwide, and this volume analyzes some of them from an anthropological perspective; it argues that transformations of urban class relationships must be approached in a way that is both globally informed and deeply embedded in local and popular histories, and contends that every case of urban mobilization should be understood against its precise context in the global capitalist transformation. The book examines cases of mobilization across the globe, and employs a Marxian class framework, open to the diverse and multi-scalar dynamics of urban politics, especially struggles for spatial justice.

The Social Question in the Twenty-First Century

The Social Question in the Twenty-First Century
Title The Social Question in the Twenty-First Century PDF eBook
Author
Publisher University of California Press
Pages 280
Release 2019-06-25
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0520302400

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At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Want. Disease. Ignorance. Squalor. Idleness. Taken together, these comprise the “giant evils” expressed in the Social Question—first raised in mid-nineteenth-century Europe to diagnose the crises produced by the emergence of the industrial society. Due to a globalized switch to neoliberalism in the final quarter of the twentieth century, the Social Question has made a worldwide comeback. The Social Question in the Twenty-First Century maps out the linked crises across regions and countries and identifies the renewed and intensified social question as a labor issue above all. The volume includes discussions from every corner of the globe, focusing on American exceptionalism, Chinese repression, Indian exclusion, South African colonialism, democratic transitions in Eastern Europe, and other phenomena. The effects of capitalism dominating the world, the impact of the scarcity of waged work, and the acknowledgment of how the dispossessed poor bear the brunt of the crisis are all evaluated in this carefully curated volume. Both thorough and thoughtful, the book serves as collective effort to revive and reposition the Social Question, reconstructing its meaning and its politics in the world today.