Labour Mobilization, Politics and Globalization in Brazil Between Militancy and Moderation /

• Main Author: Riethof, Marieke (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Studies of the Americas
• Subjects: Latin America-Politics and government.; Democracy.; Political science.; Economic development.; Social change.; Latin America-Economic conditions.; World politics.; Latin American Politics.; Governance and Government.; Development and Social Change.; Latin American and Caribbean Economics.; Political History.

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...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Labour Movements, Globalization and the Dilemmas of Development
• 3. Labour and the State: Corporatism and the Left, 1930-1977
• 4. New Unionism: Protest, Mobilization and Negotiating the Transition to Democracy, 1978-1988
• 5. Economic Crisis, Reform and the Pragmatic Left, 1989-2001
• 6. Labour Strategies and the Left in Power: Moderation, Division and Renewed Militancy from Lula to Dilma
• 7. Conclusions.