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Brazil's steel city : developmentalism, strategic power, and industrial relations in Volta Redonda, 1941-1964 / Oliver J. Dinius

Author
Dinius, Oliver J. (Oliver Jürgen)
Published
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2011]
Copyright Date
©2011
Physical Description
1 online resource (xxi, 325 pages) : illustrations, maps
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Contents
Inducing an industrial revolution : the creation of the national steel company -- Industry comes to a village, villagers come to an industry -- State paternalism in the making of a company town -- From construction to production : labor management in transition -- Beware of the communists : political policing and labor control -- Power over production : the technical division of labor and workers' strategic positions in steel -- Strategic power, labor politics, and the rise of the metalworkers union -- The crisis of developmentalism : from union hegemony to the military coup.
Summary
This text presents a social history of the National Steel Company (CSN), Brazil's foremost state-owned company and largest industrial enterprise in the mid-20th century.
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ISBN
9780804775809 (electronic bk.)
080477580X (electronic bk.)
9780804771689
0804771685
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Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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