Migration and the making of industrial Sao Paulo / Paulo Fontes ; foreword by Barbara Weinstein ; translated from the Portuguese by Ned Sublette.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fontes, Paulo Roberto Ribeiro, author.

Contributor:

Sublette, Ned, 1951- translator.

Weinstein, Barbara, writer of foreword.

Standardized Title:

Nordeste em São Paulo. English

Language:

English

Portuguese

Subjects (All):

Migrant labor--Brazil--São Paulo--History.

Migrant labor.

Migrant labor--Brazil--São Miguel Paulista--History.

Internal migrants--Brazil, Northeast.

Internal migrants.

History.

São Miguel Paulista (Brazil)--History.

São Miguel Paulista (Brazil).

Northeast Brazil.

Brazil--São Miguel Paulista.

Brazil--São Paulo.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 280 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.

Summary:

Published in 2008 and winner of the 2011 Thomas E. Skidmore Prize, Paulo Fontes's Migration and the Making of Industrial São Paulo is a detailed social history of São Paulo's extraordinary urban and industrial expansion. Fontes focuses on those migrants who settled in the suburb of São Miguel Paulista, which grew from 7,000 residents in the 1940s to more than 140,000 two decades later. Reconstructing these migrants' everyday lives within a broad social context, Fontes examines the economic conditions that prompted their migration, their creation of an integrated identity and community, and their efforts to gain worker rights. Fontes challenges the stereotypes of northeasterners as culturally backward, uneducated, violent, and unreliable, instead seeing them as a resourceful population with considerable social and political resolve. Fontes's investigations into northeastern life in São Miguel Paulista yield a fresh understanding of São Paulo's incredible and difficult growth while outlining how a marginalized population exercised its political agency. Book jacket.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-269) and index.

ISBN:

9780822361152

0822361159

9780822361343

0822361345

9780822374299

0822374293

OCLC:

919341852