Industrial workers and the birth of the Populist Republic in Brazil, 1945-1946
Abstract
Examines the central role which Brazilian industrial workers played in the political
transition of 1945-1946 that ended the Estado Novo dictatorship and opened the era
of electoral democracy known as the Brazilian Populist Republic (1946-1964). Argues
that the events of 1945-1946 are best seen as a radical break with the past, marked
by the entry of the urban working class into Brazilian political life: Vargas's 1945
electoral legislation was consciously and successfully designed to alter the Brazilian
electoral process through effective mass enfranchisement of the urban areas. In order
to understand postwar popular and leftist trends, one must discern the contours of
mass working-class consciousness, its characteristics, psychology, and direction of
development. -from Editor
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John D. French
Professor of History
I am a professor of History at Duke University with secondary appointments in African
and African-American as well as International Comparative Studies in Durham North
Carolina. With a B.A. from Amherst College, I received my doctorate at Yale in 1985
under Brazilian historian Emília Viotti da Costa. Since 1979, I have been studying
class, race, and politics in Brazil, Latin America, and beyond with 48 refereed articles
as well as numerous chapters, briefing books, and reviews
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