The New Brazilian Labor Movement:
Forms of Working Class Contention since the 1990s

Friday, March 23, 2001 at 4:00 PM
Location: Room C-198
Graduate School and University Center
365 5th Ave.


Salvador Sandoval
Visiting Scholar, Harvard University
Professor, PUC and UNICAMP (Brazil)

This talk discusses the effects of economic reestructuring on labor solidarity and alternative forms of working class contention since the 1990s.

Salvador Sandoval is Professor at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo and Universidade Estadual de Campinas. He is currently a Lemman Visiting Scholar at Harvard University. Dr. Sandoval is the author of Labor Unrest and Social Change in Brazil since 1945 and Os Trabalhadores Param: As Greves no Brasil 1945-1990. He is working on a new book on the trajectory of popular contention in Brazil over the last century. Sandoval received his B.A. and M.A. from the University of Texas and his Ph.D in political science from the University of Michigan.

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