Brazil's Steel City: Developmentalism, Strategic Power, and Industrial Relations in Volta Redonda, 1941-1964 by Oliver Dinius is reviewed. Despite its importance to Brazil, Volta Redonda is a ...little-studied city. Dinius's thoroughly researched book admirably fills that historiographical void. Dinius is a tireless researcher, and he has done a masterful job of collecting information from a wide variety of CSN and union archives. Dinius argues that the steelworkers of Volta Redonda were unique in Brazil because they worked in a state enterprise that was also a strategic industry. His thesis is that they were the beneficiaries of Vargas-era "trabalhismo" and of mid-twentieth-century developmentalism. The steelworkers of Volta Redonda, according to Dinius, used their strategic economic power to outpace all other Brazilian workers in terms of wages in the 1950s.
Reviews of Books Kristiansen, Kristian; Anthony, David W.; Holcombe, Charles ...
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