Brazilian Steel Town : : Machines, Land, Money and Commoning in the Making of the Working Class / / Massimiliano Mollona.

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 co...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2019
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Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2019]
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Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Dislocations ; 27
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Physical Description:1 online resource (334 p.)
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Table of 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