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

Bibliographic Data

ID4821203
AuthorsJames M Malloy (University of Pittsburgh, corresponding author)
Year1977
Volume19
Issue1
Pages35-60
Publication date1977-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-1937 • E-ISSN: 2162-2736
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/174860
OpenAlexW2783770723
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited6

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