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Rise and Decline of Brazil's New Unionism: The Politics of the Central Unica dos Trabalhadores by Jeffrey Sluyter-Beltrao (Paperback, 2010)

This book explores the political trajectory of Latin America's most important contemporary labor movement. The New Unionism played a central role in Brazil's struggle for democracy in the 1980s and recast the country's subsequent party politics through its creation of the invative Workers' Party (PT). The author breaks new ground by analyzing this celebrated prototype of social movement unionism as a heterogeneous alliance of component factions that evolves in relation to shifting ecomic, political, and ideological contexts. Through the prism of internal politics, he shows how Brazil's transitions - from military-authoritarian to liberal-democratic rule, from statist to free-market ecomic policies, and from a Leninist to a post-Leninist left - undermined the independent labor movement's commitments to internal democracy, political automy, and societal transformation. The book concludes with a comparative assessment of Brazilian, South African, and South Korean social movement unionisms' shared dilemmas, arguing that an adequate understanding of their relative declines demands more rigorous attention to the dynamic nexus between internal movement politics and shifting external environments.

Issn
1662-7784
Series Part/Volume Number
6
First Published
2010
Series Title
Trade Unions Past, Present and Future
Content Note
Tables and Graphs
Author Biography
Jeffrey Sluyter-Beltrao is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Alfred University in New York State.
Date of Publication
17/08/2010
Edition Statement
1st New Edition
Genre
Regional History
Country of Publication
Switzerland

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