Migration and the Making of Industrial Sao Paulo (Paperback)

Published in 2008 and winner of the 2011 Thomas E. Skidmore Prize, Paulo Fontes's Migration and the Making of Industrial Sao Paulo is a detailed social history of Sao Paulo's extraordinary urban and industrial expansion. Fontes focuses on those migrants who settled in the suburb of Sao Miguel Paulista, which grew from 7,000 residents in the 1940s to over 140,000 two decades later. Reconstructing these migrants' everyday lives within a broad social context, Fontes examines the economic conditions that prompted their migration, their creation of an integrated identity and community, and their efforts to gain worker rights. Fontes challenges the stereotypes of Northeasterners as culturally backward, uneducated, violent, and unreliable, instead seeing them as a resourceful population with considerable social and political resolve. Fontes's investigations into Northeastern life in Sao Miguel Paulista yield a fresh understanding of Sao Paulo's incredible and difficult growth while outlining how a marginalized population exercised its political agency.

General

Imprint:	Duke University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	May 2016
First published:	2016
Authors:	Paulo Fontes
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	304
ISBN-13:	978-0-8223-6134-3
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Economic history Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Industrial history Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Population & demography > Immigration & emigration Books > History > History of specific subjects > Economic history Books > History > History of specific subjects > Industrial history Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
LSN:	0-8223-6134-5
Barcode:	9780822361343

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