The politics of the Precariat. From populism to Lulista hegemony / / Ruy Braga.

• Superior document: Historical Materialism Book Series
• Author: Braga, Ruy.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : Koninklijke Brill NV,, 2017.
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Historical Materialism Book Series 164.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 pages).

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. First published in Portugese as A política do precariado: do populismo à hegemonia lulista by Boitempo Editorial in 2012.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Motto -- Preface -- Introduction -- The Formation of the Reversal -- The Spectre of the People -- The Fatalism of the Weak -- The Transformation of Hegemony in Reverse -- The Smile of the Exploited -- The Anguish of the Subalterns -- ‘Let’s Play That?’ -- Interventions -- Back Matter -- Bibliography -- Index.