Rise And Decline Of Brazil S New Unionism

Author : Jeffrey Sluyter-Beltrão
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Brazil
ISBN : 3034301146

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Rise and Decline of Brazil's New Unionism by Jeffrey Sluyter-Beltrão Pdf

This book explores the political trajectory of Latin America's most important contemporary labor movement. The New Unionism played a central role in Brazil's struggle for democracy in the 1980s and recast the country's subsequent party politics through its creation of the innovative Workers' Party (PT). The author breaks new ground by analyzing this celebrated prototype of «social movement unionism» as a heterogeneous alliance of component factions that evolves in relation to shifting economic, political, and ideological contexts. Through the prism of internal politics, he shows how Brazil's transitions - from military-authoritarian to liberal-democratic rule, from statist to free-market economic policies, and from a Leninist to a post-Leninist left - undermined the independent labor movement's commitments to internal democracy, political autonomy, and societal transformation. The book concludes with a comparative assessment of Brazilian, South African, and South Korean social movement unionisms' shared dilemmas, arguing that an adequate understanding of their relative declines demands more rigorous attention to the dynamic nexus between internal movement politics and shifting external environments.

Author : Mariana Mota Prado,Michael J. Trebilcock
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108473811

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Institutional Bypasses by Mariana Mota Prado,Michael J. Trebilcock Pdf

Analyzes institutional bypasses, a strategy to promote change and implement reforms in developing countries.

Author : Kim Scipes
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781608466658

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Building Global Labor Solidarity in a Time of Accelerating Globalization by Kim Scipes Pdf

This anthology explores the international labor movements building worker solidarity across the Global South. Since the 1980s, the world’s working class has been under continual assault by the forces of neoliberalism and imperialism. In response, new labor movements have emerged all over the world—from Brazil and South Africa to Indonesia and Pakistan. Building Global Labor Solidarity in a Time of Accelerating Globalization is a call for international solidarity to resist the assaults on labor’s power. This collection of essays by international labor activists and academics examines models of worker solidarity, different forms of labor organizations, and those models’ and organizations’ relationships to social movements and civil society.

Author : Marieke Riethof
Publisher : Springer
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 49,9 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 : Kim Scipes
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781793631510

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Building Global Labor Solidarity by Kim Scipes Pdf

Efforts to build bottom-up global labor solidarity began in the late 1970s and continue today, having greater social impact than ever before. In Building Global Labor Solidarity: Lessons from the Philippines, South Africa, Northwestern Europe, and the United States Kim Scipes—who worked as a union printer in 1984 and has remained an active participant in, researcher about, and writer chronicling the efforts to build global labor solidarity ever since—compiles several articles about these efforts. Grounded in his research on the KMU Labor Center of the Philippines, Scipes joins first-hand accounts from the field with analyses and theoretical propositions to suggest that much can be learned from past efforts which, though previously ignored, have increasing relevance today. Joined with earlier works on the KMU, AFL-CIO foreign policy, and efforts to develop global labor solidarity in a time of accelerating globalization, the essays in this volume further develop contemporary understandings of this emerging global phenomenon.

Author : Eduardo Silva,Federico Rossi
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780822983101

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Reshaping the Political Arena in Latin America by Eduardo Silva,Federico Rossi Pdf

Neoliberalism changed the face of Latin America and left average citizens struggling to cope in many ways. Popular sectors were especially hard hit as wages declined and unemployment increased. The backlash to neoliberalism in the form of popular protest and electoral mobilization opened space for leftist governments to emerge. The turn to left governments raised popular expectations for a second wave of incorporation. Although a growing literature has analyzed many aspects of left governments, there is no study of how the redefinition of the organized popular sectors, their allies, and their struggles have reshaped the political arena to include their interests—until now. This volume examines the role played in the second wave of incorporation by political parties, trade unions, and social movements in five cases: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, and Venezuela. The cases shed new light on a subject critical to understanding the change in the distribution of political power related to popular sectors and their interests—a key issue in the study of postneoliberalism.

Author : Anthony Pahnke
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780816536030

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Brazil's Long Revolution by Anthony Pahnke Pdf

The book analyzes the origins and development of the Brazilian Landless Workers' Movement, one of the largest and most innovative current social movements--Provided by publisher.

Author : Gabriel Ondetti
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780271047843

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Land, Protest, and Politics by Gabriel Ondetti Pdf

Brazil is a country of extreme inequalities, one of the most important of which is the acute concentration of rural land ownership. In recent decades, however, poor landless workers have mounted a major challenge to this state of affairs. A broad grassroots social movement led by the Movement of Landless Rural Workers (MST) has mobilized hundreds of thousands of families to pressure authorities for land reform through mass protest. This book explores the evolution of the landless movement from its birth during the twilight years of Brazil&’s military dictatorship through the first government of Luiz In&ácio Lula da Silva. It uses this case to test a number of major theoretical perspectives on social movements and engages in a critical dialogue with both contemporary political opportunity theory and Mancur Olson&’s classic economic theory of collective action. Ondetti seeks to explain the major moments of change in the landless movement's growth trajectory: its initial emergence in the late 1970s and early 80s, its rapid takeoff in the mid-1990s, its acute but ultimately temporary crisis in the early 2000s, and its resurgence during Lula's first term in office. He finds strong support for the influential, but much-criticized political opportunity perspective. At the same time, however, he underscores some of the problems with how political opportunity has been conceptualized in the past. The book also seeks to shed light on the anomalous fact that the landless movement continued to expand in the decade following the restoration of Brazilian democracy in 1985 despite the general trend toward social-movement decline. His argument, which highlights the unusual structure of incentives involved in the struggle for land in Brazil, casts doubt on a key assumption underlying Olson's theory.

Author : Jake Rosenfeld
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780674726215

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What Unions No Longer Do by Jake Rosenfeld Pdf

From workers' wages to presidential elections, labor unions once exerted tremendous clout in American life. In the immediate post-World War II era, one in three workers belonged to a union. The fraction now is close to one in five, and just one in ten in the private sector. The only thing big about Big Labor today is the scope of its problems. While many studies have explained the causes of this decline, What Unions No Longer Do shows the broad repercussions of labor's collapse for the American economy and polity. Organized labor was not just a minor player during the middle decades of the twentieth century, Jake Rosenfeld asserts. For generations it was the core institution fighting for economic and political equality in the United States. Unions leveraged their bargaining power to deliver benefits to workers while shaping cultural understandings of fairness in the workplace. What Unions No Longer Do details the consequences of labor's decline, including poorer working conditions, less economic assimilation for immigrants, and wage stagnation among African-Americans. In short, unions are no longer instrumental in combating inequality in our economy and our politics, resulting in a sharp decline in the prospects of American workers and their families.

Author : Joel Wolfe
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 0822313472

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Working Women, Working Men by Joel Wolfe Pdf

In Working Women, Working Men, Joel Wolfe traces the complex historical development of the working class in Sào Paulo, Brazil, Latin America's largest industrial center. He studies the way in which Sào 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 Sào 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.

Author : Thomas William Merrick,Elza Berqu_
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1983-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Determinants of Brazil's Recent Rapid Decline in Fertility by Thomas William Merrick,Elza Berqu_ Pdf

Author : Manuel Riesco
Publisher : Springer
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2007-03-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230625259

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Latin America by Manuel Riesco Pdf

The 21st century Latin American developmental welfare state model is based on a new public-private alliance, where state-led developmental social policy relies for its implementation mainly on proactive, emerging regional entrepreneurs and a growing middle class. This volume illustrates where innovative development strategy may be in the making.

Author : Salvador Sandoval
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000311693

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Social Change And Labor Unrest In Brazil Since 1945 by Salvador Sandoval Pdf

This book begins with a brief description of the legal foundations of the corporative labor relations system in Brazil. It analyzes strike activity in Brazil as it increased in frequency and intensity from 1945 to 1963 while undergoing fundamental changes in composition.

Author : Kaarle Nordenstreng
Publisher : Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9788024645056

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The Rise and Fall of the International Organization of Journalists Based in Prague 1946–2016 by Kaarle Nordenstreng Pdf

This is a unique history of what in the 1980s was the world’s largest association in the media field. However, the IOJ was embroiled in the Cold War: the bulk of 300,000 members were in the socialist East and developing South. Hence the collapse of the Soviet-led communist order in central-eastern Europe in 1989–91 precipitated the IOJ’s demise. The author – a Finnish journalism educator and media scholar – served as President of the IOJ during its heyday. In addition to a chronological account of the organization, the book includes testimonies by actors inside and outside the IOJ and comprehensive appendices containing unpublished documents.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Labor
ISBN : IND:30000083222053

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Brazil by Anonim Pdf