Contesting the Terms of Incorporation: Labor and the State in Rio De Janeiro, 1930--1964
Jordan, Thomas Marshall
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Title
Contesting the Terms of Incorporation: Labor and the State in Rio De Janeiro, 1930--1964
Author(s)
Jordan, Thomas Marshall
Issue Date
2000
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Love, Joseph L.
Department of Study
History
Discipline
History
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Sociology, Industrial and Labor Relations
Language
eng
Abstract
"Beginning in 1950 with the re-election of Getulio Vargas, the second half of the dissertation studies the subsequent fifteen years in which politicians courted urban labor as an important political constituency. Looking at, respectively, the internal dynamics of Rio's metalworkers' union, labor's new agenda and the strategies used by Rio's workers to implement it, and the national efforts to create new types of labor organizations, I show how a new generation of labor leaders used the corporate labor system to their full advantage while, simultaneously, attempting to change the system itself through direct action and political pressure. This period of what I term the ""new activism"" lasted until April 1964, when the military coup re-established a rigid model of government-directed corporativism."
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