Modern Brazil : a social history
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Modern Brazil : a social history
Cambridge University Press, 2020
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 378-411) and index
Contents of Works
- Brazil at mid-century
- Political and economic evolution of Brazil
- Demographic change
- Women, family and work
- The welfare state and income transfers
- Urban life in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
- Stratification and mobility
- Race and stratification
- Organization of civil society
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Herbert S. Klein and Francisco Vidal Luna present a sweeping narrative of social change in Brazil that documents its transition from a predominantly rural and illiterate society in 1950, to an overwhelmingly urban, modern, and literate society in the twenty-first century. Tracing this radical evolution reveals how industrialization created a new labor force, how demographic shifts reorganized the family and social attitudes, and how urban life emerged in what is now one of the most important industrial economies in the world. A paradigm for modern social histories, the book also examines changes in social stratification and mobility, the decline of regional disparities, education, social welfare, race, and gender. By analyzing Brazil's unprecedented political, economic, and social changes in the late twentieth and twenty-first century, the authors address an under-explored area in current scholarship and offer an invaluable resource for scholars of Latin American and Brazil.
Table of Contents
- List of maps
- List of graphs
- List of tables
- Introduction
- 1. Brazil at mid-century
- 2. Political and economic evolution of Brazil
- 3. Demographic change
- 4. Women, family and work
- 5. The Welfare State and income transfers
- 6. Urban life in the twentieth and twenty-first century
- 7. Stratification and mobility
- 8. Race and stratification
- 9. Organization of civil society
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index.
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