Mollona Brazilian Steel Town

Machines, Land, Money and Commoning in the Making of the Working Class
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-78920-434-6
Verlag: Berghahn
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 27, 334 Seiten, Mobipocket Unencrypted

Reihe: Dislocations

Volta Redonda is a Brazilian steel town founded in the 1940s by dictator Getúlio Vargas on an ex-coffee valley as a powerful symbol of Brazilian modernization. The city’s economy, and consequently its citizen’s lives, revolves around the Companha Siderurgica Nacional (CSN), the biggest industrial complex in Latin America. Although the glory days of the CSN have long passed, the company still controls life in Volta Redonda today, creating as much dispossession as wealth for the community. Brazilian Steel Town tells the story of the people tied to this ailing giant – of their fears, hopes, and everyday struggles.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mollona, Massimiliano

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Materielle Kultur, Wirtschaftsethnologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: Brazilian Steel-Town and the Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional (CSN)

Chapter 1. Capital Enclosures, Labour Abstraction and the Struggle over Value Forms

Chapter 2. Cyclops at Work: Capital as Technology

Chapter 3. Old and New Land Questions: Capital as Land

Chapter 4. Of Ants and Steelworkers: Capital as Labor

Chapter 5. The Invention of People’s Money: Capital as Money

Chapter 6. Labor as Commons

Conclusion: Towards an Anthropology of Uneven and Combined Development

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Mollona, Massimiliano
Massimiliano Mollona is Senior Lecturer at Goldsmiths College, London, where he teaches Economic and Political Anthropology and Art and Anthropology. Among his publications are Made in Sheffield, an Ethnography of Industrial Work and Politics (2009, Berghahn) and with Don Kalb, Worldwide Mobilizations: Class Struggles and Urban Commoning (2018, Berghahn).

Massimiliano Mollona is Senior Lecturer at Goldsmiths College, London, where he teaches Economic and Political Anthropology and Art and Anthropology. Among his publications are Made in Sheffield, an Ethnography of Industrial Work and Politics (2009, Berghahn) and with Don Kalb, Worldwide Mobilizations: Class Struggles and Urban Commoning (2018, Berghahn).