This edited volume provides comparative and transnational histories of the working people of Brazil and the United States. The international group of historians' methodologically innovative chapters explore links, resonances, and divergences between US and Brazilian labor history.
Edited by Fernando Teixeira da Silva; Alexandre Fortes; Thomas D. Rogers and Gillian McGillivray - Contributions by Larissa Rosa Corrêa; Jerry Dávila; Alexandre Fortes; Glaucia Cristina Candian Fraccaro; Michael M. Hall; Rebecca Herman; Gillian McGillivra
Introduction. Connections, Comparisons, Inspirations: Overcoming a Dichotomous View of the History of Labor in the United States and Brazil, Fernando Teixeira da Silva, Alexandre Fortes, Gillian McGillivray, and Thomas D. Rogers
Part I: Immigration, Labor, and Feminism
Chapter 1: Immigration and Militance: Notes on Italians in São Paulo and the United States, Michael M. Hall
Chapter 2: International Feminist Connections in the Making of Labor Rights for Women, 1917-1937, Glaucia Cristina Candian Fraccaro
Part II: New Deal, New State, and World War II
Chapter 3: Labor's New Deal: Corporatism and Politics in the US and Brazil, Fernando Teixeira da Silva
Chapter 4: Labor, Race, and Politics: US Views of Brazil in the Context of the Second World War, Alexandre Fortes
Chapter 5: Social Peace in a Time of War: Labor Justice and Foreign Policy in World War II Brazil, Rebecca Herman
Part III: The Cold War, Race, and Rural Workers
Chapter 6: An Engagé Intellectual in Brazil: Robert Alexander's View of Brazilian Unionism during the Cold War, Larissa Rosa Corrêa
Chapter 7: Doormen and the Individualization of Segregation in Brazil, Jerry Dávila
Chapter 8: Real Labor Movements, Imagined Revolutions: The Northeastern Brazilian Sugar Zone Through US Eyes, 1955-1964, Gillian McGillivray and Thomas D. Rogers
Postscript: Entangling Labor Histories, Barbara Weinstein
About the Editors and Contributors