Rural unions and the struggle for land in Brazil

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2157153
AutoresClifford Andrew Welch (Welch Foundation), Sérgio Sauer (0000-0002-2014-3215)
Año2015
Volumen42
Número6
Páginas1109-1135
Fecha de publicación2015-11-02
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Journal of Peasant Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0306-6150 • E-ISSN: 1743-9361
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/03066150.2014.994511
OpenAlexW1821963727
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas17
Referencias citadas17

Studies of Brazil's agricultural labor movement have generally neglected its relationship to the struggle for land, but this is neither fair nor accurate. Analyzing the rural labor movement's historical contributions to the land struggle in Brazil, this contribution has been organized into three main periods, emphasizing social relations, institutional activism and policy changes. It argues that despite the peculiarities of different historical contexts, rural labor consistently provoked protest against policies that privileged large landholders, whose concentration of power over land and labor resources continually worsened Brazil's ranking as one of the most unequal of nations. For more than half a century, the most constant opponent of this situation among the peasantry has been the National Confederation of Workers in Agriculture (CONTAG), a corporatist organization of rural labor unions founded in 1963

Agriculture · Archaeology · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Land reform · Peasant · Political economy · Political science · Rural development · Sociology · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Land Rights and Reforms · Rural Development and Agriculture · Law