End Of The Peasantry

The Rural Labor Movement in Northeast Brazil, 1961–1988

Anthony W. Pereira

• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Year: 1997
• ISBN:
  9780822971764
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Latin American & Caribbean History
• Index: History

The rural labor movement played a surprisingly active role in Brazil's transition to democracy in the 1980s. While in most Latin American countries rural labor was conspicuously marginal, in Brazil, an expanded, secularized, and centralized movement organized strikes, staged demonstrations for land reform, demanded political liberalization, and criticized the government\u2019s environmental policies.In this ground-breaking book, Anthony W. Pereira explains this transition as the result of two intertwined processes - the modernization of agricultural production and the expansion of the welfare state into the countryside - and explores the political consequences of these processes, occurring not only in Latin America but in much of the Third World.

Table of contents

• Contents
• List of Tables
• List of Acronyms
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Part I - The Awakening of the Unions
• Part II - Explaining the New Rural Labor Movement
• Part III - The Unions in the New Republic
• Appendixes
• Notes
• Glossary
• Bibliography
• Index