ISBN:
9781789204346
Language:
Undetermined
Pages:
334 p.
Edition:
1st edition
Series Statement:
Dislocations 27
Keywords:
Volta Redonda; Labor; Heavy Industry; Global Capitalism; Globalization; Working Class Livelihood; Global Economic Re-structuring; Financialization; Financialization of Economics; Financialization of Politics
Abstract:
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.
Description / Table of Contents:
List of Figures -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Brazilian Steel-Town and the Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional (CSN) -- Chapter 1. Capital Enclosures, Labour Abstraction and the Struggle over Value Forms -- Chapter 2. Cyclops at Work: Capital as Technology -- Chapter 3. Old and New Land Questions: Capital as Land -- Chapter 4. Of Ants and Steelworkers: Capital as Labor -- Chapter 5. The Invention of People’s Money: Capital as Money -- Chapter 6. Labor as Commons -- Conclusion: Towards an Anthropology of Uneven and Combined Development -- References -- Index --
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