Brazilian Steel Town: Machines, Land, Money and Commoning in the Making of the Working Class

by Massimiliano Mollona

Volta Redonda is a Brazilian steel town founded in the 1940s by dictator Get lio Vargas on an ex-coffee valley as a powerful symbol of Brazilian modernization. The city's economy, and consequently its citizen's lives, revolves around the Companha Siderurgica Nacional (CSN), the biggest industrial complex in Latin America. Although the glory days of the CSN have long passed, the company still controls life in Volta Redonda today, creating as much...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 178920433X
• ISBN13: 9781789204339
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"