Cliff Welch
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3764436 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Cliff Welch |
| PRENOMES | Cliff |
| SOBRENOME | Welch |
| ASSINATURA | WELCH C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Grand Valley State University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1993 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Farewell To Class Struggle? AntunesRicardoFarewell to Work? Essays on the World of Work’s Metamorphoses and Centrality. Studies in Critical Social Sciences 198. Translated by Murillo van der Laan and …
Thanks to Trump
Engaged
For Land and Liberty
On a recent trip to the state of Bahia, Brazil, my family and I tried to visit the Iguape Valley quilombos studied by Merle Bowen in this remarkable book. We managed to contact a Freedom Route (Rota da Liberdade) representative, but even though we had a few days of flexibility to take a tour, we were warned that destructive summer rains made such a visit logistically impossible. Earlier, we had tried to visit another area studied by Bowen, the Qu…
Puzzling over Authoritarian Legality
A Tessitura Dos Direitos
Book Review| May 01 2013 A Tessitura Dos Direitos: Patrões E Empregados Na Justiça Do Trabalho, 1953 – 1964 A Tessitura dos Direitos: Patrões e Empregados na Justiça do Trabalho, 1953 – 1964. Corrêa, Larissa Rosa. São Paulo: LTr Editora, 2011 231 pp., $25.62 (cloth) Cliff Welch Cliff Welch Universidade Federal de São Paulo Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2013) 10 (2): 118–120. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-207…
This Land Is Ours Now
Book Review| March 01 2012 This Land Is Ours Now: Social Mobilization and the Meanings of Land in Brazil This Land Is Ours Now: Social Mobilization and the Meanings of Land in BrazilWolford, Wendy Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010xii + 281 pp., $84.95 (cloth); $23.95 (paper) Cliff Welch Cliff Welch Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2012) 9 (1): 157–159. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-1461257 Cite Icon Cite …
Quebra-Quilos and Peasant Resistance
In an important 1987 article periodizing the history of the peasantry in Northeast Brazil, the Mexican historian Guillermo Palacios stressed the need for “modern studies that adequately analyze” the region’s Quebra-Quilo revolts of 1874 – 75. Since that time, several studies have been produced in Portuguese, notably those of Hamilton de Mattos Monteiro (1995) and Luciano Mendonça de Lima (2001). In English, Kim Richardson’s 2008 doctoral disserta…
Camponeses
Comparison of the histories of three leading peasant organizations in the Pontal do Paranapanema region of Brazil-the Partido Comunista do Brasil (PCB) from 1945 to 1964, the Confederação Nacional de Trabalhadores na Agricultura (CONTAG) from 1964 to 1984, and the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem-Terra (MST) from 1984 to 2004-suggests that continuity is as important as change in understanding Brazilian peasant movements. The MST has been co…
Peasant Movements in Latin America
Brazil's Experience with Agrarian Reform, 1995–2006
This paper analyses one of the challenges facing agrarian geographers of Brazil: explaining land-tenure systems in light of persistently high levels of land occupations by landless peasants, the implementation of agrarian reform projects by the Fernando Henrique Cardoso (1995–2002) and Luís Lula Inácio da Silva (2003-present) presidential administrations and the expansion of agribusiness. It examines the actions of families organized in the Landl…
From Fanatics to Folk
Movement Histories
Founded in 1984, the Landless Rural Workers Movement of Brazil (MST) has been historicized in several recent publications. This review essay examines seven books that provide historical analysis of the movement. Published in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian in the past six years, these books offer diverse assessments of MST history. The essay contrasts their interpretations of the movement's origins, founding, consolidation, organization…
Keeping Communism Down on the Farm
Drawing on primary and secondary sources, this article discusses the durability of communist ideology in rural Brazil during the second half of the twentieth century. It analyzes the theme in two major periods: the Populist Republic (1945-1964) and the Military Regime (1964-1985). Concluding with a discussion of the first years of the New Republic, it argues that the political mobilization of Brazilian peasants defied the geopolitical logic of th…
The Time of Freedom
Book Review| May 01 2005 The Time of Freedom: Campesino Workers in Guatemala's October Revolution The Time of Freedom: Campesino Workers in Guatemala's October Revolution Cindy Forster Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001 xi + 287 pp., $34.95 (cloth) Cliff Welch Cliff Welch Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2005) 2 (2): 125–127. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-2-2-125 Views Icon Views Article contents …
Afogados em leis
Peasants against Globalization
Abbreviations Introduction: debt crisis, social crisis, paradigm crisis 1. The rise and demise of a tropical welfare state 2. 'Iron First in a Kid Glove': peasants confront the free market 3. Organizing in 'The Cradle of Maize' 4. 'In Jail, We'll Eat Cement': finale to a peasant strike 5. Movements evolve, organizations are born and die Conclusion: peasant movements of the late twentieth century Appendix Notes Index
Bitita's Diary
These books are products of the near cottage industry formed around the life of the now deceased Carolina María de Jesús by Robert Levine. Carolina, as she is commonly called, was a poor Afro-Brazilian woman born in 1915. In the early 1960s she became an international sensation after the publication in forty countries of her diary about life as a slum dweller (favelada). Published in English in 1962 as Child of the Dark, the book has outsold all …
State, Capitalism, and Democracy in Latin America
Labor Internationalism
A major question confronting analysts of Latin American labor concerns the relationships among unions, the state, and foreign powers. Some social scientists have argued that the relative autonomy of unions affects the strength of democracy in a given country (see Weffort 1978; Hall and Garcia 1989; Epstein 1989; Cohen 1989; Collier and Collier 1991). They have also asserted that Latin America's ability to control its own destiny has been shaped i…
Rivalry and Unification
The article utilises oral history, labour and military court records, newspaper accounts, and government documents to narrate the history of rural labour mobilisation in the Aha Mogiana region of São Paulo, Brazil, during the years 1959 to 1964. It shows how rival rural leaders linked either to the Brazilian Communist Party or the Catholic Church organised many workers, led numerous influential strikes, and helped hundreds of workers sue for thei…
Working Women, Working Men
In Working Women, Working Men , Joel Wolfe traces the complex historical development of the working class in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Latin America's largest industrial center. He studies the way in which Sao Paulo's working men and women experienced Brazil's industrialization, their struggles to gain control over their lives within a highly authoritarian political system, and their rise to political prominence in the first half of the twentieth centur…
A esquerda e o golpe de 64. Vinte e cinco anos depois, as forças populares repensam seus mitos, sonhos, e ilusões
Camponeses
Comparison of the histories of three leading peasant organizations in the Pontal do Paranapanema region of Brazil-the Partido Comunista do Brasil (PCB) from 1945 to 1964, the Confederação Nacional de Trabalhadores na Agricultura (CONTAG) from 1964 to 1984, and the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem-Terra (MST) from 1984 to 2004-suggests that continuity is as important as change in understanding Brazilian peasant movements. The MST has been co…
Peasant Movements in Latin America
Brazil's Experience with Agrarian Reform, 1995–2006
This paper analyses one of the challenges facing agrarian geographers of Brazil: explaining land-tenure systems in light of persistently high levels of land occupations by landless peasants, the implementation of agrarian reform projects by the Fernando Henrique Cardoso (1995–2002) and Luís Lula Inácio da Silva (2003-present) presidential administrations and the expansion of agribusiness. It examines the actions of families organized in the Landl…
Keeping Communism Down on the Farm
Drawing on primary and secondary sources, this article discusses the durability of communist ideology in rural Brazil during the second half of the twentieth century. It analyzes the theme in two major periods: the Populist Republic (1945-1964) and the Military Regime (1964-1985). Concluding with a discussion of the first years of the New Republic, it argues that the political mobilization of Brazilian peasants defied the geopolitical logic of th…
Labor Internationalism
A major question confronting analysts of Latin American labor concerns the relationships among unions, the state, and foreign powers. Some social scientists have argued that the relative autonomy of unions affects the strength of democracy in a given country (see Weffort 1978; Hall and Garcia 1989; Epstein 1989; Cohen 1989; Collier and Collier 1991). They have also asserted that Latin America's ability to control its own destiny has been shaped i…
Rivalry and Unification
The article utilises oral history, labour and military court records, newspaper accounts, and government documents to narrate the history of rural labour mobilisation in the Aha Mogiana region of São Paulo, Brazil, during the years 1959 to 1964. It shows how rival rural leaders linked either to the Brazilian Communist Party or the Catholic Church organised many workers, led numerous influential strikes, and helped hundreds of workers sue for thei…
A esquerda e o golpe de 64. Vinte e cinco anos depois, as forças populares repensam seus mitos, sonhos, e ilusões
Working Women, Working Men
In Working Women, Working Men , Joel Wolfe traces the complex historical development of the working class in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Latin America's largest industrial center. He studies the way in which Sao Paulo's working men and women experienced Brazil's industrialization, their struggles to gain control over their lives within a highly authoritarian political system, and their rise to political prominence in the first half of the twentieth centur…
Labor Internationalism
A major question confronting analysts of Latin American labor concerns the relationships among unions, the state, and foreign powers. Some social scientists have argued that the relative autonomy of unions affects the strength of democracy in a given country (see Weffort 1978; Hall and Garcia 1989; Epstein 1989; Cohen 1989; Collier and Collier 1991). They have also asserted that Latin America's ability to control its own destiny has been shaped i…
Rivalry and Unification
The article utilises oral history, labour and military court records, newspaper accounts, and government documents to narrate the history of rural labour mobilisation in the Aha Mogiana region of São Paulo, Brazil, during the years 1959 to 1964. It shows how rival rural leaders linked either to the Brazilian Communist Party or the Catholic Church organised many workers, led numerous influential strikes, and helped hundreds of workers sue for thei…
State, Capitalism, and Democracy in Latin America
Bitita's Diary
These books are products of the near cottage industry formed around the life of the now deceased Carolina María de Jesús by Robert Levine. Carolina, as she is commonly called, was a poor Afro-Brazilian woman born in 1915. In the early 1960s she became an international sensation after the publication in forty countries of her diary about life as a slum dweller (favelada). Published in English in 1962 as Child of the Dark, the book has outsold all …
Peasants against Globalization
Abbreviations Introduction: debt crisis, social crisis, paradigm crisis 1. The rise and demise of a tropical welfare state 2. 'Iron First in a Kid Glove': peasants confront the free market 3. Organizing in 'The Cradle of Maize' 4. 'In Jail, We'll Eat Cement': finale to a peasant strike 5. Movements evolve, organizations are born and die Conclusion: peasant movements of the late twentieth century Appendix Notes Index
Afogados em leis
The Time of Freedom
Book Review| May 01 2005 The Time of Freedom: Campesino Workers in Guatemala's October Revolution The Time of Freedom: Campesino Workers in Guatemala's October Revolution Cindy Forster Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001 xi + 287 pp., $34.95 (cloth) Cliff Welch Cliff Welch Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2005) 2 (2): 125–127. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-2-2-125 Views Icon Views Article contents …
Movement Histories
Founded in 1984, the Landless Rural Workers Movement of Brazil (MST) has been historicized in several recent publications. This review essay examines seven books that provide historical analysis of the movement. Published in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian in the past six years, these books offer diverse assessments of MST history. The essay contrasts their interpretations of the movement's origins, founding, consolidation, organization…
Keeping Communism Down on the Farm
Drawing on primary and secondary sources, this article discusses the durability of communist ideology in rural Brazil during the second half of the twentieth century. It analyzes the theme in two major periods: the Populist Republic (1945-1964) and the Military Regime (1964-1985). Concluding with a discussion of the first years of the New Republic, it argues that the political mobilization of Brazilian peasants defied the geopolitical logic of th…
From Fanatics to Folk
Brazil's Experience with Agrarian Reform, 1995–2006
This paper analyses one of the challenges facing agrarian geographers of Brazil: explaining land-tenure systems in light of persistently high levels of land occupations by landless peasants, the implementation of agrarian reform projects by the Fernando Henrique Cardoso (1995–2002) and Luís Lula Inácio da Silva (2003-present) presidential administrations and the expansion of agribusiness. It examines the actions of families organized in the Landl…
Camponeses
Comparison of the histories of three leading peasant organizations in the Pontal do Paranapanema region of Brazil-the Partido Comunista do Brasil (PCB) from 1945 to 1964, the Confederação Nacional de Trabalhadores na Agricultura (CONTAG) from 1964 to 1984, and the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem-Terra (MST) from 1984 to 2004-suggests that continuity is as important as change in understanding Brazilian peasant movements. The MST has been co…
Peasant Movements in Latin America
This Land Is Ours Now
Book Review| March 01 2012 This Land Is Ours Now: Social Mobilization and the Meanings of Land in Brazil This Land Is Ours Now: Social Mobilization and the Meanings of Land in BrazilWolford, Wendy Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010xii + 281 pp., $84.95 (cloth); $23.95 (paper) Cliff Welch Cliff Welch Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2012) 9 (1): 157–159. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-1461257 Cite Icon Cite …
Quebra-Quilos and Peasant Resistance
In an important 1987 article periodizing the history of the peasantry in Northeast Brazil, the Mexican historian Guillermo Palacios stressed the need for “modern studies that adequately analyze” the region’s Quebra-Quilo revolts of 1874 – 75. Since that time, several studies have been produced in Portuguese, notably those of Hamilton de Mattos Monteiro (1995) and Luciano Mendonça de Lima (2001). In English, Kim Richardson’s 2008 doctoral disserta…
A Tessitura Dos Direitos
Book Review| May 01 2013 A Tessitura Dos Direitos: Patrões E Empregados Na Justiça Do Trabalho, 1953 – 1964 A Tessitura dos Direitos: Patrões e Empregados na Justiça do Trabalho, 1953 – 1964. Corrêa, Larissa Rosa. São Paulo: LTr Editora, 2011 231 pp., $25.62 (cloth) Cliff Welch Cliff Welch Universidade Federal de São Paulo Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2013) 10 (2): 118–120. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-207…
Puzzling over Authoritarian Legality
For Land and Liberty
On a recent trip to the state of Bahia, Brazil, my family and I tried to visit the Iguape Valley quilombos studied by Merle Bowen in this remarkable book. We managed to contact a Freedom Route (Rota da Liberdade) representative, but even though we had a few days of flexibility to take a tour, we were warned that destructive summer rains made such a visit logistically impossible. Earlier, we had tried to visit another area studied by Bowen, the Qu…
Engaged
Farewell To Class Struggle? AntunesRicardoFarewell to Work? Essays on the World of Work’s Metamorphoses and Centrality. Studies in Critical Social Sciences 198. Translated by Murillo van der Laan and …
Thanks to Trump
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