Minas e mineiros de carvão no Rio Grande do Sul -- Análise quantitativa dos processos trabalhistas das minas entre 1946 e 1954 -- Desertores e insalubres : os mineiros tentam inverter a "ordem das coisas" -- As greves de 1945 a 1946 -- A criação do DACM e a utopia da encampação -- Para...

This is the first complete economic and social history of Brazil in the modern period in any language. It provides a detailed analysis of the evolution of the Brazilian society and economy from the end of the empire in 1889 to the present day. The authors elucidate the basic trends that have...