Fontes Paulo Fontes

Migration and the Making of Industrial São Paulo (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Published in 2008 and winner of the 2011 Thomas E. Skidmore Prize, Paulo Fontes's Migration and the Making of Industrial São Paulo is a detailed social history of São Paulo's extraordinary urban and industrial expansion. Fontes focuses on those migrants who settled in the suburb of São Miguel Paulista, which grew from 7,000 residents in the 1940s to over 140,000 two decades later. Reconstructing these migrants' everyday lives within a broad social context, Fontes examines the economic conditions that prompted their migration, their creation of an integrated identity and community, and their efforts to gain worker rights. Fontes challenges the stereotypes of Northeasterners as culturally backward, uneducated, violent, and unreliable, instead seeing them as a resourceful population with considerable social and political resolve. Fontes's investigations into Northeastern life in São Miguel Paulista yield a fresh understanding of São Paulo's incredible and difficult growth while outlining how a marginalized population exercised its political agency.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822374299
• Artikelnr.: 54674632

Autorenporträt

Paulo Fontes

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