Social Security Policy and the Working Class in Twentieth-Century Brazil

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4821203
AutoresJames M Malloy (University of Pittsburgh, autor de correspondencia)
Año1977
Volumen19
Número1
Páginas35-60
Fecha de publicación1977-02-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0022-1937 • E-ISSN: 2162-2736
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/174860
OpenAlexW2783770723
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas6

A crucial feature of political life in twentieth-century Brazil has been the growing role of the state as the central regulator of social, economic, and political life. One aspect of the expansion of the public sector in Brazil, as elsewhere, has been the accumulation by the state of a number of important social and economic functions previously exercised outside the public domain. One important function adopted by the state in Brazil is that of social protection, in the form of an elaborate and complex social insurance system. Presently some form of social protection reaches almost the entire rural population and some 78 percent of the urban population. The main social protection organization-Instituto Nacional da Previdência Social (INPS)- boasts the second largest budget in the nation (in 1975 CR $43 billion in contrast to the federal budget of Cr $113 billion) and a bureaucracy of over 102,700 employees

Bureaucracy · Economic growth · Economics · Political science · Politics · Population · Social insurance · Social policy · Social protection · Social security · Sociology · State (computer science) · Working class · Law · Public Administration · Rural Development and Agriculture · Social and Political Issues · Urban Development and Societal Issues