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Laborers and Enslaved Workers: Experiences in Common in the Making of Rio de Janeiro's Working Class, 1850-1920

By Marcelo Badaró Mattos

Book information

Publisher
Berghahn Books
Year
2017
ISBN
9781785336300
DOI
10.1515/9781785336300
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
603 kB (617944 bytes)
Series
International Studies in Social History; 29
Pages
186\185
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-20 03:41:52

Description

From the middle of the nineteenth century until the 1888 abolition of slavery in Brazil, Rio de Janeiro was home to the largest urban population of enslaved workers anywhere in the Americas. It was also the site of an incipient working-class consciousness that expressed itself across seemingly distinct social categories. In this volume, Marcelo Badaró Mattos demonstrates that these two historical phenomena cannot be understood in isolation. Drawing on a wide range of historical sources, Badaró Mattos reveals the diverse labor arrangements and associative life of Rio’s working class, from which emerged the many strategies that workers both free and unfree pursued in their struggles against oppression.

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