Working Women, Working Men: Sao Paulo & the Rise of Brazil's Industrial Working Class, 1900-1955

by Joel Wolfe

Book Overview

In Working Women, Working Men, Joel Wolfe traces the complex historical development of the working class in S o Paulo, Brazil, Latin America's largest industrial center. He studies the way in which S o Paulo's working men and women experienced Brazil's industrialization, their struggles to gain control over their lives within a highly authoritarian political system, and their rise to political prominence in the first half of the twentieth century.
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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822313472
• ISBN13: 9780822313472
• Release Date: May 1993
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.1"