Brazil's Steel City: Developmentalism, Strategic Power, and Industrial Relations in Volta Redonda, 1941-1964
Oliver Dinius
Abstract
This book presents a social history of the National Steel Company (CSN), Brazil's foremost state-owned company and largest industrial enterprise in the mid-twentieth century. It focuses on the role the steelworkers played in Brazil's social and economic development under the country's import substitution policies from the early 1940s to the 1964 military coup. Counter to prevalent interpretations of industrial labor in Latin America, where workers figure above all as victims of capitalist exploitation, the book shows that CSN workers held strategic power and used it to reshape the company's la ... More
Keywords: Brazil, National Steel Company, steelworkers, economic development, industrial labor, Latin America, import substitution, labor regime
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2010 | Print ISBN-13: 9780804771689 |
| Published to Stanford Scholarship Online: June 2013 | DOI:10.11126/stanford/9780804771689.001.0001 |
