Paulo Fontes is Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences (CPDOC) Fundação Getulio Vargas – Rio de Janeiro; a researcher at the Brazilian Council of Research and Development (CNPq); and the coeditor of The Country of Football: Politics, Popular Culture, and the Beautiful Game in Brazil.
Barbara Weinstein is Silver Professor of History at New York University and the author of The Color of Modernity: São Paulo and the Making of Race and Nation in Brazil, also published by Duke University Press.

Foreword / Barbara Weinstein  vii

Acknowledgments  xiii

Introduction  1

1. A Cardboard Suitcase and a Backpack: Northeastern Migration to São Paulo in the 1950s  15

2. Land of the Northeasterners: Migration, Urbanization, and Factory Work in São Miguel Paulista  48

3. Worker Community and Everyday Life: "Becoming Northeastern" in São Paulo  79

4. The Right to Practice Politics: Parties and Political Leadership in São Miguel Paulista  131

5. Workers and the Neighborhood: Social Movements and the Struggle for Autonomy  178

Conclusion  208

Notes  211

Bibliography  249

Index  271

Paulo Fontes is Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences (CPDOC) Fundação Getulio Vargas – Rio de Janeiro; a researcher at the Brazilian Council of Research and Development (CNPq); and the coeditor of The Country of Football: Politics, Popular Culture, and the Beautiful Game in Brazil.

Barbara Weinstein is Silver Professor of History at New York University and the author of The Color of Modernity: São Paulo and the Making of Race and Nation in Brazil, also published by Duke University Press.