For Social Peace in Brazil Industrialists and the Remaking of the Working Class in Sï¿½o Paulo, 1920-1964

Name: For Social Peace in Brazil Industrialists and the Remaking of the Working Class in Sï¿½o Paulo, 1920-1964
Price: 6.75 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780807846025

ISBN-10: 0807846023

ISBN-13: 9780807846025

Edition: 1997

Authors: Barbara Weinstein

List price: $60.00

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Marketplace

3 new & used from $6.75

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

This book is the first major study of industrialists and social policy in Latin America. Barbara Weinstein examines the vast array of programs sponsored by a new generation of Brazilian industrialists who sought to impose on the nation their vision of a rational, hierarchical, and efficient society. She explores in detail two national agencies founded in the 1940s (SENAI and SESI) that placed vocational training and social welfare programs directly in the hands of industrialist associations. Assessing the industrialists' motives, Weinstein also discusses how both men and women in Brazil's working class received the agencies' activities. Inspired by the concepts of scientific management,…

Book details

List price: $60.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 1/20/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 456
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 1.01" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English

Barbara Weinstein, associate professor of history at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, is author of The Amazon Rubber Boom, 1850-1920.



Acknowledgments


Abbreviations


Introduction



Rationalization And Industry In the 1920s



Rational Organization And Social Reform



Industrialists In The Nation's Service



Inventing Senai And Sesi



Employers And Workers Respond



Remaking The Worker at Home And at Play



Remaking The Worker at Work



The Politics Sof Social Peace


Epilogue And Conclusion


Appendix


Notes


Bibliography


Index