The Politics of the Precariat : From Populism to Lulista Hegemony.
- 1st ed.
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- Historical Materialism Book Series ; v.164 .
- Historical Materialism Book Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Preface (Löwy) -- List of Tables and Figures -- Tables -- Figures -- Introduction -- Part 1. The Formation of the Reversal -- Chapter 1. The Spectre of the People -- The Sociology of Modernisation Encounters the Working Class -- Unions in Peripheral Fordism -- Populism and the Migrant Precariat -- Between the Archaic and the Modern: An Ethnography of the Precariat -- Working-Class Archaeology: Populism in Reverse -- From Fordist Mirage to the Politics of the Precariat -- Final Considerations -- Chapter 2. The Fatalism of the Weak -- Sociology of Applied Work: The Limits of Bureaucratic Unionism -- Public Sociology of Work: Towards Working-Class Independence -- The Precarious Hegemony of Peripheral Fordism -- From Populism to Social Discontent (and Vice-versa) -- Critical Sociology of Work: Discontent as Disalienation -- For a Sociology of Working-Class Discontent -- Final Considerations -- Part 2. The Transformation of Hegemony in Reverse -- Chapter 3. The Smile of the Exploited -- Work and Politics in São Bernardo -- The Despotic Factory Regime and the Metalworker Precariat -- Peons 1: From Contingent Consciousness to Necessary Consciousness -- Peons 2: From the Union Bureaucracy to the Metalworker Vanguard -- Peons 3: From Rank-and-File Rebellion to Strike Waves -- Precarious Hegemony: The Return of Bureaucratic Power? -- Final Considerations -- Chapter 4. The Anguish of the Subalterns -- Post-Fordism and the Neoliberal Company -- A Peripheral and Post-Fordist Precariat -- Discontent and Consent in the Call Centre Industry -- Unionism in the Telemarketing Sector -- Lulista Hegemony: Between Social Discontent and Active Will -- Telemarketers: The Reverse of the Reverse -- Final Considerations -- Conclusion. 'Let's Play That?' -- Interventions -- 1. Dilma and the Brazilian Utopia. 2. Uneasiness in the Kitchen -- 3. Chronicle of an Unforgettable Month -- Johannesburg, 7 February 2013 -- São Paulo, 13 June 2013 -- A National Revolt -- How Do We Interpret the Emergence of This State of Social Discontent? -- Final Considerations -- 4. For a Sociology Worthy of June -- The June Enigma -- Cenedic's Combative Sociology -- Deciphering the Enigma -- Final Considerations -- 5. Rosa Parks in Itaquera -- 6. The Most Visible Colour -- 7. Challenging Hegemony -- 8. The Era of Pillage -- 9. The End of Lulism and the Palace Coup in Brazil -- Strike Waves -- Precarious Hegemony -- The Contradictions of Lulism -- The Palace Coup -- Bibliography -- Index.
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.
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Populism-Brazil-History. Anxiety-Brazil-History. Social classes-Brazil-History. Brazil-Social conditions-21st century. Brazil-Politics and government-21st century.