The seed was planted

By Cliff Welch

Subjects: Politics and government, Labor unions, brazil, Labor movement, south america, 15.85 history of America, Political activity, Platteland, Labor unions, Brazil, politics and government, Social conditions, History, Agricultural laborers, Arbeidersbeweging, Brazil, social conditions, Labor movement

Description: "Argues that rural land and labor activism extend back to 1920s, at least in São Paulo state. Details interaction of rural workers with Vargas state, the Partido Comunista Brasileiro, Catholic Church, and other actors, and workers' responses to repression after 1964. Important antidote to generally ahistorical analyses of contemporary Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.