Brazilian steel town : machines, land, money and commoning in the making of the working class / Massimiliano Mollona.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mollona, Massimiliano, 1969- author.

Series:

Dislocations ; Volume 27.

Dislocations ; Volume 27

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional--History.

Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional.

Steel industry and trade--Brazil--Volta Redonda--History.

Steel industry and trade.

Volta Redonda (Brazil)--Economic conditions.

Volta Redonda (Brazil).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (334 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford : Berghahn, 2020.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Introduction: Brazilian Steel Town and Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional

Chapter 1 – Capital Enclosures, Labour Abstraction and the Struggle over Value Forms

Chapter 2 – Cyclopes at Work Capital as Technology

Chapter 3 – Old and New Land Questions: Capital as Land

Chapter 4 – Of Ants and Steelworkers: Capital as Labour

Chapter 5 – Capital as Money and the Invention of People’s Capitalism

Chapter 6 – Labour as Commons

Conclusion: Towards an Anthropology of Uneven and Combined Development

References

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781789204346

1789204348

OCLC:

1125112808