Overview
- First book in English to analyze the historical and sociological roots of the current Brazilian crisis
- Provides a conceptual framework that will allow foreign readers to better understand the collapse of a rising regional power
- Situates former president Dilma Rousseff’s impeachment in the wider context of the historical struggle for social rights in the country
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Sociology (BRIEFSSOCY)
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Table of contents(3 chapters)
Keywords
- Social crisis in Brazil
- Economic crisis in Brazil
- Political crisis in Brazil
- Impeachment Dilma Rousseff
- Workers’ Party (PT)
- Social question in Brazil
- Labor rights in Brazil
- Precarious work in Brazil
- Denial of social rights in Brazil
- Democratic transition in Brazil
- Interpretation of Brazilian society
- Citizenship in Brazil
About this book
This book will be of interest to a wide range of social scientists (such as sociologists, economists, historians and political scientists) interested in labor and citizenship issues in developing countries like Brazil, as well as for social agents (from the public and private spheres) with practical involvement with such issues, such as trade unionists, leaders and advisors of business organizations, policy-makers, politicians, NGO activists and technicians.
Authors and Affiliations
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Social Sciences Department, Federal University of Paraíba, João Pessoa, Brazil
Roberto Véras de Oliveira
About the author
Roberto Véras de Oliveira is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB), Brazil. He holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of São Paulo (USP) and was a visiting scholar in the Institute for Research on Labor and Development at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Professor Véras de Oliveira is also a researcher of the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), with a productivity grant from the same institution.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Crisis and Social Regression in Brazil
Book Subtitle: A New Moment of the Social Question
Authors: Roberto Véras de Oliveira
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Sociology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99402-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-99401-7Published: 16 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-99402-4Published: 06 August 2018
Series ISSN: 2212-6368
Series E-ISSN: 2212-6376
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 63
Topics: Sociology of Work, Social Structure, Social Inequality