| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
International studies in social history ; volume 29
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| Note |
"Originally published in Portuguese in 2008." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Tables and Maps; Preface to the English Edition; Introduction; Chapter One -- Work, Urban Life, and the Experience of Exploitation; Chapter Two -- Forms of Organization; Chapter Three -- Resistance and Struggle; Chapter Four -- Consciousness; Conclusion; References; Index. |
| Summary |
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 Badaro Mattos demonstrates that these two historical phenomena cannot be understood in isolation. Drawing on a wide range of historical sources, Badaro 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. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Working class -- Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro -- History.
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Slave labor -- Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro -- History.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor. |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations. |
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Slave labor |
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Working class |
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Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro |
| Genre/Form |
History
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| Added Title |
Escravizados e livres. English
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Mattos, Marcelo Badaró. Laborers and enslaved workers. New York : Berghahn Books, 2017 9781785336294 (DLC) 2017014894 |
| ISBN |
9781785336300 (electronic bk.) |
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1785336304 (electronic bk.) |
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9781785336294 (hardback ; alk. paper) |
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