The Seed Was Planted: The Saõ Paulo Roots Of Brazil's Rural Labor Movement, 1924-1964

Argues That Rural Land And Labor Activism Extend Back To 1920s, At Least In São Paulo State. Details Interaction Of Rural Workers With Vargas State, The Partido Comunista Brasileiro, Catholic Church, And Other Actors, And Workers' Responses To Repression After 1964. Important Antidote To Generally Ahistorical Analyses Of Contemporary Movimento Dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra--handbook Of Latin American Studies, V. 58. Prologue Sao Paulo Rural Workers And Modern Brazilian History -- Frontier Territory Confronting The Landlords' World -- Breaking Ground Becoming A Bureaucratic Problem -- Planting The Seed Finding Opportunity In The New Policies -- Shifting Terrain Resisting The Deadly Limits Of Incorporation -- Tending The Soil Appropriating The Tools Of Incorporation -- Shaping The Tree Mobilizing To Enforce Rural Labor Law -- First Fruits Harvesting Rural Labor Unions -- Cut Back Hard Facing The Repression Of A Growing Movement -- Epilogue: Sao Paulo Rural Workers And Brazil's Democratic Transition. Cliff Welch. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [383]-398) And Index.