Manufacturing Militance: Workers' Movements in Brazil and South Africa, 1970-1985

by Gay W. Seidman

Book Overview

Challenging prevailing theories of development and labor, Gay Seidman's controversial study explores how highly politicized labor movements could arise simultaneously in Brazil and South Africa, two starkly different societies. Beginning with the 1960s, Seidman shows how both authoritarian states promoted specific rapid-industrialization strategies, in the process reshaping the working class and altering relationships between business and the state...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520083032
• ISBN13: 9780520083035
• Release Date: May 1994
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.8"