Laborers and Enslaved Workers : : Experiences in Common in the Making of Rio de Janeiro's Working Class, 1850-1920 / / Marcelo Badaró Mattos.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Mattos, Marcelo Badaró,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: International Studies in Social History ; 29
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (186 p.)

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 Badaró Mattos demonstrates that these two historical phenomena cannot be understood in isolation. Drawing on a wide range of historical sources, Badaró 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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- TABLES AND MAPS -- PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE WORK, URBAN LIFE, AND THE EXPERIENCE OF EXPLOITATION -- CHAPTER TWO FORMS OF ORGANIZATION -- CHAPTER THREE RESISTANCE AND STRUGGLE -- CHAPTER FOUR CONSCIOUSNESS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- INDEX