Crisis and Social Regression in Brazil

1. Front Matter

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2. On the Historical Development of Brazil: What Development?

   • Roberto Véras de Oliveira

   Pages 1-14

3. Between 1980s and 1990s: Promise to Denial of Social Rights

   • Roberto Véras de Oliveira

   Pages 15-31

4. From PT’s Governments to Post-impeachment Scenario

   • Roberto Véras de Oliveira

   Pages 33-58

5. Back Matter

   Pages 59-63

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This is the first book published in English to present a concise but panoramic overview of the social, economic and political roots of the current Brazilian crisis. By situating former president Dilma Rousseff’s impeachment in the wider context of the historical struggle for social rights, citizenship and democracy in the country, the book provides a conceptual framework that will allow foreign readers to better understand the apparent contradiction of a rising regional power that all of a sudden entered in one of the worst economic, social and political crisis of its history.

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.  

• 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

• Social Sciences Department, Federal University of Paraíba, João Pessoa, Brazil

  Roberto Véras de Oliveira

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. 

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