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The Politics of the Precariat: From Populism to Lulista Hegemony

The Politics of the Precariat: From Populism to Lulista Hegemony

Paperback

Series: Historical Materialism

EconomicsGeneral World HistorySouth American History

ISBN10: 164259055X
ISBN13: 9781642590555
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Published: Sep 3 2019
Pages: 292
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Making use of the theoretical tools of Marxist critical sociology, Ruy Braga proposes an innovative reading of the social history of Brazil--from Fordist populism to the Lulista hegemony--using the politics of the precariat as an analytical vector. Braga's analysis seeks to explain both economic and structural processes (peripheral Fordism, its crisis, the transition to financialised post-Fordism) and the subjective dimension of the proletariat suffering from precarity (the anxiety of the subordinate, the preoccupation of the worker, the plebeian or classist drive of the exploited). At the moment when the plebeian drive is once again stimulating strike activity in the country, underlined by the protests that have recently shaken Brazil, this book impels us to reflect on the limits of the current model of Brazilian development.

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