Politics of the Precariat : from Populism to Lulista Hegemony

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 current Lulista hegemony - with the "politics of the Precariat" as an analytical vector. Ruy Braga's analysis seeks to explain both economic structural processes (peripheral Fordism, its crisis, the transition to financed 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 plebeian drive is returning to stimulate strike activity in the country, underlined by the recent protests that shook Brazil, this book impels us to reflect on the limits of the current model of Brazilian development. First published in Portugese as 'A politica do precariado: do populismo a hegemonia' by Boitempo Editorial in 2012.

Year

2018

Language

English

Publisher

BRILL

Editions

1

Pages

292

ISBN

9789004272378

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