Book ID: CBB001212320

Brazil's Steel City Developmentalism, Strategic Power, and Industrial Relations in Volta Redonda, 1941--1964 (2011)

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Dinius, Oliver J. (Author)


Stanford University Press


Publication Date: 2011
Physical Details: xxi + 325 pp.; ill.; maps
Language: English

Brazil's Steel City 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, Dinius shows that CSN workers held strategic power and used it to reshape the company's labor regime, extracting impressive wage gains and benefits. Dinius argues that these workers, and their peers in similarly strategic industries, had the power to undermine the state capitalist development model prevalent in the large economies of postwar Latin America.

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Authors & Contributors
Marco Venanzi
Neto, Marta Martins
William Mazzaferro
Marques da Cruz, Sara
Francesco Gaglianò
Mamo, Andrew Benedict
Concepts
Technology and economics
Technology and industry
Technology and politics
Technology
Industry
Steel and steel industry
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
20th century, early
21st century
Republic of Venice (697–1797)
Early modern
Places
United States
Italy
Americas
Brazil
Tropics
São Paulo (Brazil)
Institutions
International Business Machines Corporation
ENI (Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi)
RAND Corporation
General Electric
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