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

By Massimiliano Mollona

Book information

Publisher
Berghahn Books
Year
2019
ISBN
9781789204346
DOI
10.1515/9781789204346
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3020590 bytes)
Series
Dislocations; 27
Pages
334\334
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-20 03:21:48

Description

Volta Redonda is a Brazilian steel town founded in the 1940s by dictator Getúlio 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 dispossession as wealth for the community. Brazilian Steel Town tells the story of the people tied to this ailing giant – of their fears, hopes, and everyday struggles.

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