Laborers and enslaved workers : experiences in common in the making of Rio de Janeiro's working class, 1850-1920 / Marcelo Badaró Mattos ; translated by Renata Meirelles and Frederico Machado de Barros.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mattos, Marcelo Badaró, author.

Contributor:

Meirelles, Renata, translator.

Series:

International studies in social history ; v. 29.

International studies in social history

Standardized Title:

Escravizados e livres. English

Language:

English

Portuguese

Subjects (All):

Working class--Brazil--Rio de Janeiro--History.

Working class.

Slave labor--Brazil--Rio de Janeiro--History.

Slave labor.

History.

Brazil--Rio de Janeiro.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

viii, 175 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2017.

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.

Contents:

1 Work, Urban Life, and the Experience of Exploitation 17

2 Forms of Organization 52

3 Resistance and Struggle 98

4 Consciousness 133.

Notes:

"Originally published in Portuguese in 2008."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Mattos, Marcelo Badaró, author. Laborers and enslaved workers

ISBN:

9781785336294

1785336290

OCLC:

981994683