Contesting the Terms of Incorporation: Labor and the State in Rio De Janeiro, 1930--1964

"Beginning in 1950 with the re-election of Getulio Vargas, the second half of the dissertation studies the subsequent fifteen years in which politicians courted urban labor as an important political constituency. Looking at, respectively, the internal dynamics of Rio's metalworkers' union, labor's new agenda and the strategies used by Rio's workers to implement it, and the national efforts to create new types of labor organizations, I show how a new generation of labor leaders used the corporate labor system to their full advantage while, simultaneously, attempting to change the system itself through direct action and political pressure. This period of what I term the ""new activism"" lasted until April 1964, when the military coup re-established a rigid model of government-directed corporativism."

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

History

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Jordan, Thomas Marshall

Contributors dc:contributor

• Love, Joseph L.

• Sociology, Industrial and Labor Relations

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI9990032

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/84764