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From the middle of the nineteenth century until the 1888 abolition
of slavery in Brazil, Rio de Janeiro was home to the largest urban
population of enslaved workers anywhere in the Americas. It was
also the site of an incipient working-class consciousness that
expressed itself across seemingly distinct social categories. In
this volume, Marcelo Badaro Mattos demonstrates that these two
historical phenomena cannot be understood in isolation. Drawing on
a wide range of historical sources, Badaro Mattos reveals the
diverse labor arrangements and associative life of Rio's working
class, from which emerged the many strategies that workers both
free and unfree pursued in their struggles against oppression.
This book reviews Marx's contributions to the debate on the working
class. The first part of the work presents the synthesis of the
main contributions of Marx and Engels (and 20th century Marxist
writers) to the understanding of social classes, the class
struggle, and the working class. The remaining parts present
exercises of dialogue between Marx's and Marxists' discussions on
the working class, presented in the first part, and empirical
elements of class reality today, as well as debates in the social
sciences and historiography on the same issues. The thesis defended
in the book is simple: the "working class," also called the
"proletariat," as it appears in the work of Karl Marx, had and has
validity as an analytical category for the understanding of social
life under capitalism. Nevertheless, Marx's discussion on the issue
is complex and the category "working class" in his approach is
wider than many Marxists have presented it.
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