Brazilian Steel Town

Author : Massimiliano Mollona
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789204346

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Brazilian Steel Town by Massimiliano Mollona Pdf

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.

Author : Oliver Dinius
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804775809

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Brazil's Steel City by Oliver Dinius Pdf

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.

Author : Christian Strümpell
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781040034866

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Steel Town Adivasis by Christian Strümpell Pdf

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)

Author : Werner Baer
Publisher : [Nashville, Tenn.] : Vanderbilt University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Steel industry and trade
ISBN : UCSD:31822003509254

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The Development of the Brazilian Steel Industry by Werner Baer Pdf

Study of the industrial development of the iron and steel industry in Brazil - discusses the historical background of the economic structure, the use of technology in and the cost of steel industrial production, the availability of natural resources, the efficiency of the choice of the location of industry and forecasts the future patterns of supply of and demand for Brazilian steel in the world market. Bibliography pp. 183 to 186, map and statistical tables.

Author : James G. Carrier,Don Kalb
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107087415

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Anthropologies of Class by James G. Carrier,Don Kalb Pdf

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

Author : Lachlan MacKinnon
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487524029

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Closing Sysco by Lachlan MacKinnon Pdf

Personal accounts are at the heart of Closing Sysco, where each story reveals the cultural, political, and historical ramifications of industrial closure in Sydney, Nova Scotia, the former steel city of Atlantic Canada.

Author : Don Kalb,Massimiliano Mollona
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785339073

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Worldwide Mobilizations by Don Kalb,Massimiliano Mollona Pdf

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.

Author : Maurizio Atzeni
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781137361349

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Workers and Labour in a Globalised Capitalism by Maurizio Atzeni Pdf

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.

Author : Christian Strümpell,Michael Hoffmann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9783111311418

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Industrial Labour in an Unequal World by Christian Strümpell,Michael Hoffmann Pdf

The volume scrutinizes the fundamentally uneven character of industrial production and working class formation by bringing together anthropologists specializing on industrial labour in various locations from South America, Western and Eastern Europe, North Africa, and South Asia. Through their engagement with Leon Trotsky’s concept of ‘uneven and combined development’ the authors unravel the complex relations that connect (and disconnect) labour in their sites of research with workers in other places and other times. As the contributions likewise reveal, the unevenness and combination inherent in industrial developments shape and are at the same time also shaped by the different politics workers in an unequal world pursue, as well as the historical experiences and future expectations of workers that inform these. With the attention the authors pay to the specificities of ethnographic detail as well as to broader regional and global developments the volume demonstrates the value of long-term ethnographic research and is of interest to a wide audience ranging from specialists in the fields of anthropology, history, sociology and development studies to students and activists.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Deindustrialization
ISBN : 1913620069

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Steel Town by Anonim Pdf

In 1977, Stephen Shore travelled across New York state, Pennsylvania, and eastern Ohio - an area in the midst of industrial decline that would eventually be known as the Rust Belt. Shore met steelworkers who had been thrown out of work by plant closures and photographed their suddenly fragile world: deserted factories, lonely bars, dwindling high streets, and lovingly decorated homes. Across these images, a prosperous middle America is seen teetering on the precipice of disastrous decline. Hope and despair alike lurk restlessly behind the surfaces of shop fronts, domestic interiors, and the fraught expressions of those who confront Shore's 4x5" view camera. Originally commissioned as an extended photographic report for Fortune Magazine in the vein of Walker Evans, Shore's multifaceted investigation has only gained political salience in the intervening years. Shore's subjects - including workers, union leaders, and family members - had voted for Jimmy Carter the year preceding his visit; now he found them disillusioned with the new president, fated to leave behind the Democratic party and become the 'Reagan Democrats'. Through unfailingly engrossing images by one of the world's acknowledged masters, Steel Town provides an immersive portrait of a time and place whose significance to our own is ever more urgent. With a text by Helen C. Epstein, author, translator and professor of human rights and public health.--

Author : Anonim
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520302402

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The Social Question in the Twenty-First Century by Anonim Pdf

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.

Author : Oliver Jürgen Dinius,Angela Vergara
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780820336824

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Company Towns in the Americas by Oliver Jürgen Dinius,Angela Vergara Pdf

Company towns were the spatial manifestation of a social ideology and an economic rationale. The contributors to this volume show how national politics, social protest, and local culture transformed those founding ideologies by examining the histories of company towns in six countries: Argentina (Firmat), Brazil (Volta Redonda, Santos, Fordlândia), Canada (Sudbury), Chile (El Salvador), Mexico (Santa Rosa, Río Blanco), and the United States (Anaconda, Kellogg, and Sunflower City). Company towns across the Americas played similar economic and social roles. They advanced the frontiers of industrial capitalism and became powerful symbols of modernity. They expanded national economies by supporting extractive industries on thinly settled frontiers and, as a result, brought more land, natural resources, and people under the control of corporations. U.S. multinational companies exported ideas about work discipline, race, and gender to Latin America as they established company towns there to extend their economic reach. Employers indeed shaped social relations in these company towns through education, welfare, and leisure programs, but these essays also show how working-class communities reshaped these programs to serve their needs. The editors’ introduction and a theoretical essay by labor geographer Andrew Herod provide the context for the case studies and illuminate how the company town serves as a window into both the comparative and transnational histories of labor under industrial capitalism.

Author : Felipe Correa
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-07
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781477309414

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Beyond the City by Felipe Correa Pdf

During the last decade, the South American continent has seen a strong push for transnational integration, initiated by the former Brazilian president Fernando Henrique Cardoso, who (with the endorsement of eleven other nations) spearheaded the Initiative for the Integration of Regional Infrastructure in South America (IIRSA), a comprehensive energy, transport, and communications network. The most aggressive transcontinental integration project ever planned for South America, the initiative systematically deploys ten east-west infrastructural corridors, enhancing economic development but raising important questions about the polarizing effect of pitting regional needs against the colossal processes of resource extraction. Providing much-needed historical contextualization to IIRSA’s agenda, Beyond the City ties together a series of spatial models and offers a survey of regional strategies in five case studies of often overlooked sites built outside the traditional South American urban constructs. Implementing the term “resource extraction urbanism,” the architect and urbanist Felipe Correa takes us from Brazil’s nineteenth-century regional capital city of Belo Horizonte to the experimental, circular, “temporary” city of Vila Piloto in Três Lagoas. In Chile, he surveys the mining town of María Elena. In Venezuela, he explores petrochemical encampments at Judibana and El Tablazo, as well as new industrial frontiers at Ciudad Guayana. The result is both a cautionary tale, bringing to light a history of societies that were “inscribed” and administered, and a perceptive examination of the agency of architecture and urban planning in shaping South American lives.

Author : Marieke Riethof
Publisher : Springer
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319603094

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Labour Mobilization, Politics and Globalization in Brazil by Marieke Riethof Pdf

This book analyses the conflicts that emerged from the Brazilian labour movement’s active participation in a rapidly changing political environment, particularly in the context of the coming to power of a party with strong roots in the labour movement. While the close relations with the Workers' Party (PT) have shaped the labour movement’s political agenda, its trajectory cannot be understood solely with reference to that party’s electoral fortunes. Through a study of the political trajectory of the Brazilian labour movement over the last three decades, the author explores the conditions under which the labour movement has developed militant and moderate strategies.

Author : United States. Office of Inter-American Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-10
Category : Latin America
ISBN : UIUC:30112106760918

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Inter-American Economic News by United States. Office of Inter-American Affairs Pdf