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  • Free and Unfree Labor in the Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Amazon

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  • Adalberto Paz
  • Journal:
    International Review of Social History / Volume 62 / Issue S25 / December 2017
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    16 January 2018, pp. 23-43
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  • The nineteenth-century Brazilian Amazon was characterized by a wide variety of unfree labor performed by Indians, mestiços, free blacks, freedpersons, and slaves. Since the mid-eighteenth century, the Portuguese Crown’s failure to promote the mass influx of enslaved Africans resulted in legislation that successively institutionalized and regularized coerced labor, limiting the mobility of individuals in the lower classes and obligating them to work against their will. Initially, this was restricted to Indians, but the measures were eventually applied to the entire free population of color. This article discusses the conditions under which these laws emerged and their impact on the living conditions of the population subject to them, placing the nineteenth-century Amazonian experience within wider historiographical debates about free and unfree labor.

  • World War II and Brazilian Workers: Populism at the Intersections between National and Global Histories

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  • Alexandre Fortes
  • Journal:
    International Review of Social History / Volume 62 / Issue S25 / December 2017
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    12 January 2018, pp. 165-190
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  • This article argues that World War II played a very important, and generally underestimated role in the rise of Brazilian populism. It starts with an overview of recent trends in the debates on the use of the concept of populism in Brazil, with particular attention to works that stress the years from 1941 to 1945 as a critical juncture. Secondly, it explores the connections between war effort, changes in labor regulations, and workers’ political participation in different contexts. Finally, it summarizes how the economic and social effects produced by the involvement of Brazil in the War led to profound and accelerated changes in the nature of the regime of Getúlio Vargas and in the role of workers in Brazilian politics.

The Moral Mappings of South and North
  • Edited by Peter Wagner
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    Edinburgh University Press
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    10 January 2018
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    02 June 2017
  • This book explores the possible meanings of the 'Global South' and assesses the advantages and disadvantages of adopting it for understanding the contemporary world. It casts a wide exploratory net, addressing historical transformations of world-interpretation and wider cultural-intellectual meanings.

  • Sugarcane Workers in Search of Justice: Rural Labour through the Lens of the State

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  • Christine Rufino Dabat, Thomas D. Rogers
  • Journal:
    International Review of Social History / Volume 62 / Issue S25 / December 2017
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    10 January 2018, pp. 217-243
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  • Drawing from case file records generated in rural labour courts in Brazil’s north-eastern state of Pernambuco between 1965 and 1982, this paper demonstrates how these forums reified class-based exploitation, even as they purportedly protected workers’ rights. The paper focuses on two districts in the state’s sugarcane-growing region, both of which reveal a clear pattern of inferior treatment for rural as opposed to non-rural workers. Interpreting the evidence as a function of long-term patterns of social and economic relations in the region, the paper also sets this case in a larger context of rural labour history around the world.

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