The rural labor movement played a surprisingly active role in Brazil's transition to democracy in the 1980s. While in most Latin American countries rural labor was conspicuously marginal, in Brazil, an expanded, secularized, and centralized movement organized strikes, staged demonstrations for land reform, demanded political liberalization, and criticized the government/u2019s environmental policies.
In this ground-breaking book, Anthony W. Pereira explains this transition as the result of two intertwined processes – the modernization of agricultural production and the expansion of the welfare state into the countryside – and explores the political consequences of these processes, occurring not only in Latin America but in much of the Third World.
About the author
<b>Anthony W. Pereira</b> is associate professor of political science at Tulane University. He is the author of <i>The End of Peasantry: The Emergence of the Rural Trade Union Movement in Northeast Brazil, 1961Ð1988</i>, and coeditor of <i>Irregular Armed Forces and Their Role in Politics and State Formation</i>.
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