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Brazil (Paperback)
Joel Wolfe
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Brazil has long been an enigma to outsiders. Over the last two
decades alone, Latin America’s largest and most populous country
has been celebrated as a vibrant new democracy with a powerful
economy, and derided as a nation in complete disarray heading
toward the status of a failed state.  In this vibrant
and smart book, Joel Wolfe tells the story of this “incomplete
nation” and its two-hundred-year-old struggle to control its vast
national territory and to fashion and maintain a functioning
democracy against a backdrop of intense inequality, racial
discrimination, and regional rivalries. From independence to
the abolition of slavery, from scarring military dictatorship to
the election of President Bolsonaro – the “Tropical Trump”
– and his defeat by former President Lula da Silva, the author
weaves a rich portrait of a country fighting against the odds to
overcome the long-standing and seemingly intractable problems that
have, for most of its history, hindered national unity and
development.
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Brazil (Hardcover)
Joel Wolfe
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R1,508
R1,415
Discovery Miles 14 150
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Brazil has long been an enigma to outsiders. Over the last two
decades alone, Latin America’s largest and most populous country
has been celebrated as a vibrant new democracy with a powerful
economy, and derided as a nation in complete disarray heading
toward the status of a failed state.  In this vibrant
and smart book, Joel Wolfe tells the story of this “incomplete
nation” and its two-hundred-year-old struggle to control its vast
national territory and to fashion and maintain a functioning
democracy against a backdrop of intense inequality, racial
discrimination, and regional rivalries. From independence to
the abolition of slavery, from scarring military dictatorship to
the election of President Bolsonaro – the “Tropical Trump”
– and his defeat by former President Lula da Silva, the author
weaves a rich portrait of a country fighting against the odds to
overcome the long-standing and seemingly intractable problems that
have, for most of its history, hindered national unity and
development.
In this study of the British labor movement, Joel Wolfe asks
whether participatory democracy is possible in modern large-scale
union and party organizations and how rank and file members can
exercise control of delegates in the face of constraints imposed by
formal bureaucratic structures at all levels. In addressing these
questions he formulates a theory of participatory democracy that
has broad practical application to contemporary democratic practice
in industiral and political organizations. He tests his model
through an analysis of the policy-making process in the British
labor movement during World War I, examining thoroughly and
critically direct democracy in wartime work groups, the impact of
these groups on policy-making in critical areas, and their
influence on decision-makers in the Trades Union Congress and the
British Labor Party.
Privatization and corporatism along with pluralist forms of
adaptation have received much attention as strategies for coping
with the transformation of mature industrial economics. Yet, the
burgeoning literature on this topic has, until now, lacked an
adequate account of the determinants of a government's choice
between such strategies or of the relationships between these
strategies and the Keynesian economic framework that predominated
in the postwar era. This groundbreaking study bridges these gaps by
considering both the determinants of the choice of an adjustment
strategy and how that choice affects the nature of liberal
democracy. Written by a distinguished group of political
scientists, the essays collected here examine the divergent
responses of liberal capitalist nations to the problem of economic
adjustment, giving special attention to the political factors
affecting strategic choices aimed at bolstering employment,
enhancing international competitiveness, and restoring healthy
productivity rates. The contributors examine in depth the
experiences of the United States, Britain, France, West Germany,
and Italy. They explain how these advanced industrial nations have
faced economic crisis differently and why they have responded as
they have. In each case, the author focuses on whether and at what
level the state has pursued a corporatist approach involving a more
direct government role in managing the economy with the assistance
of private interest groups, a privatization strategy involving less
state intervention and an increased reliance on market processes,
or a form of pluralist adaptation. Throughout, the contributors
demonstrate that the strategy pursued can have a fundamental impact
on the character of democracy and the patterns of policy making.
Students of political science as well as policy makers will find
this book an incisive discussion of the myriad factors influencing
the choice among competing strategies of economic adjustment.
Autos and Progress studies the automobile as both a tool and a
cultural symbol of Brazil's status as a modern "developed" nation.
As such it addresses debates on state-making, the role of
multi-national corporations in the region, middle-class
consumerism, working-class politics, and sports and leisure in the
crafting of national identity, among others. Such a study is key
for understanding the twentieth century because auto-based
transportation became the central facet of Brazilian attempts to
gain control over its massive national space. The most obvious
expressions of this include the building of Brasilia to be the new,
interior national capital, the extensive road building throughout
the Amazon in the 1970s, the nation's development of one of the
world's leading alternative fuel industries, Brazilian dominance in
world Formula One racing, and the fact that the current president,
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, is a former auto worker and trade union
leader. This focus on Brazilians' fascination with automobiles and
their reliance on auto production and consumption as keys to their
economic and social transformation, explains how Brazil - which
enshrined its belief in science and technology in its national
slogan of Order and Progress - has differentiated itself from other
Latin American nations. This embrace of automobility allowed the
Brazilian elite to use industrialism and the increased mobility of
an auto-based society to attempt to remake the nation's poor into a
more homogeneous population. Autos and Progress engages key issues
in the Brazil around the meaning and role of race in society and
also addresses several classic debates in Brazilian studies about
the nature of Brazil's great size and diversity and how they shaped
state-making. Autos and Progress unifies Brazilian economics,
politics, and culture in the twentieth century. It provides a
unique historical context for understanding Brazilian modernism in
politics and culture. Moreover, by analyzing the origins of
auto-oriented industrialism and consumerism, the book is an
economic, cultural and social history of Brazilian attempts to
remake the nation into a middle-class democracy. This aspect of the
study presents a new interpretation for the rise of Brazil's New
Unionism, which was born in Brazil's auto, truck, and bus
factories. It also provides important context for understanding the
place of the Partido dos Trabalhadores (Workers' Party) in national
politics and culture, and the rise of President Luiz Inacio Lula da
Silva, a former auto worker.
Autos and Progress studies the automobile as both a tool and a
cultural symbol of Brazil's status as a modern "developed" nation.
As such it addresses debates on state-making, the role of
multi-national corporations in the region, middle-class
consumerism, working-class politics, and sports and leisure in the
crafting of national identity, among others. Such a study is key
for understanding the twentieth century because auto-based
transportation became the central facet of Brazilian attempts to
gain control over its massive national space. The most obvious
expressions of this include the building of Brasilia to be the new,
interior national capital, the extensive road building throughout
the Amazon in the 1970s, the nation's development of one of the
world's leading alternative fuel industries, Brazilian dominance in
world Formula One racing, and the fact that the current president,
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, is a former auto worker and trade union
leader. This focus on Brazilians' fascination with automobiles and
their reliance on auto production and consumption as keys to their
economic and social transformation, explains how Brazil - which
enshrined its belief in science and technology in its national
slogan of Order and Progress - has differentiated itself from other
Latin American nations. This embrace of automobility allowed the
Brazilian elite to use industrialism and the increased mobility of
an auto-based society to attempt to remake the nation's poor into a
more homogeneous population. Autos and Progress engages key issues
in the Brazil around the meaning and role of race in society and
also addresses several classic debates in Brazilian studies about
the nature of Brazil's great size and diversity and how they shaped
state-making. Autos and Progress unifies Brazilian economics,
politics, and culture in the twentieth century. It provides a
unique historical context for understanding Brazilian modernism in
politics and culture. Moreover, by analyzing the origins of
auto-oriented industrialism and consumerism, the book is an
economic, cultural and social history of Brazilian attempts to
remake the nation into a middle-class democracy. This aspect of the
study presents a new interpretation for the rise of Brazil's New
Unionism, which was born in Brazil's auto, truck, and bus
factories. It also provides important context for understanding the
place of the Partido dos Trabalhadores (Workers' Party) in national
politics and culture, and the rise of President Luiz Inacio Lula da
Silva, a former auto worker.
Based on archival data on oral histories, work examines rise of Brazil's industrial working class by focusing on female and male textile and metallurgical workers in Säao Paulo. Analyzes interactions between workers, union leaders, industrialists, and State policymakers. Finds distinct and sometimes contradictory gender discourses of work, organization, protest, and politics"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.
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