Paulo Fontes

Migration and the Making of Industrial São Paulo

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Paulo Fontes is Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences (CPDOC) Fundação Getulio Vargas – Rio de Janeiro; a researcher at the Brazilian Council of Research and Development (CNPq); and the coeditor of The Country of Football: Politics, Popular Culture, and the Beautiful Game in Brazil. Barbara Weinstein is Silver Professor of History at New York University and the author of The Color of Modernity: São Paulo and the Making of Race and Nation in Brazil, also published by Duke University Press.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 153mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 413g
• ISBN-13: 9780822361343
• ISBN-10: 0822361345
• Artikelnr.: 43710735

Autorenporträt

Paulo Fontes is Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences (CPDOC) Fundação Getulio Vargas – Rio de Janeiro; a researcher at the Brazilian Council of Research and Development (CNPq); and the coeditor of The Country of Football: Politics, Popular Culture, and the Beautiful Game in Brazil. Barbara Weinstein is Silver Professor of History at New York University and the author of The Color of Modernity: São Paulo and the Making of Race and Nation in Brazil, also published by Duke University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword / Barbara Weinstein  vii
Acknowledgments  xiii
Introduction  1
1. A Cardboard Suitcase and a Backpack: Northeastern Migration to São Paulo
in the 1950s  15
2. Land of the Northeasterners: Migration, Urbanization, and Factory Work
in São Miguel Paulista  48
3. Worker Community and Everyday Life: "Becoming Northeastern" in São
Paulo  79
4. The Right to Practice Politics: Parties and Political Leadership in São
Miguel Paulista  131
5. Workers and the Neighborhood: Social Movements and the Struggle for
Autonomy  178
Conclusion  208
Notes  211
Bibliography  249
Index  271