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Migration and the making of industrial São Paulo
Nordeste em São Paulo. English
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- Summary
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Winner of the 2011 Thomas E. Skidmore Prize, this new translation of Paulo Fontes's Migration and the Making of Industrial São Paulo is a detailed social history of the millions who migrated from B...
Winner of the 2011 Thomas E. Skidmore Prize, this new translation of Paulo Fontes's Migration and the Making of Industrial São Paulo is a detailed social history of the millions who migrated from Brazil's Northeast to São Paulo.
Details
- Creator
- Paulo Fontes ; translated from the Portuguese by Ned Sublette ; foreword by Barbara Weinstein
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Durham : Duke University Press, [2016]
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 280 pages) : illustrations, maps
- text file PDF
- ISBNs
- 9780822374299, 0822374293, 9780822361152, 0822361159, 9780822361343, 0822361345, 9780822361152, 9780822361343
- OCLC
- on1224277898, ocn945001990
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-269) and index.
- Translated from the Portuguese.
- A cardboard suitcase and a backpack: Northeastern migrations to Sao Paulo in the 1950s -- Land of the Northeasterners: migration, urbanization, and factory work in Sao Miguel Paulista -- Worker community and everyday life: "becoming Northeastern" in Sao Paulo -- The right to practice politics: parties and political leadership in Sao Miguel Paulista -- Workers and the neighborhood: social movements and the struggle for autonomy