Brazil: São Paulo
(see also Brazil, Brazil: Military Regime, Brazil since 1985, Brazil: Lula, PT & MST)
Basics
On the Web: Articles
On the Web: Specialized Sites
In the Library: Articles
Abramo Eberle Metalworks Management. "Factory rules, 1924," in R.M. Levine & J.J. Crocitti (eds.) The Brazil Reader (Durham NC: Duke, 1999), pp. 116-24.
Diniz, Eli. "The post-1930 industrial elite," in M. Conniff & F. McCann (eds.) Modern Brazil (Lincoln: U. of Nebraska, 1989), pp. 103-20.
Faria, Vilmar. "Metropolitan São Paulo: problems & perspectives," in M. Edel & J. Hellman (eds.) Cities in Crisis (NY, 1989).
Ferreira, Maria Puerta. "The children always had milk," in R.J. Levine & J.J. Crocitti (eds.) The Brazil Reader (Durham NC: Duke, 1999), pp. 319-22.
French, John D. "Workers & the rise of Adhemarista populism in São Paulo, Brazil, 1945-1947," Hispanic American Historical Review 68,1 (2/88):1-44.
Hanley, Anne. "Is it who you know? Entrepreneurs & bankers at the turn of the 20th c. in São Paulo, Brazil," Enterprise & Society 5,2 (2004):187-225.
Katzman, Martin T. "São Paulo & its hinterland: evolving relationships & the rise of an industrial power," Stanford Journal of International Studies 8 (spr 1978):107-30.
Lesser, Jeff. "Continuity & change within an immigrant community: the Jews of São Paulo, 1924-1945," Luso-Brazilian Review 25 (win 88).
Lopes, Juarez Rubens Brandão. "Aspects of the adjustment of rural migrants to urban-industrial conditions in São Paulo," in P.M. Hauser (eds.) Urbanization in Latin America (NY, 1962), pp. 234-48.
Morse, Richard. "São Paulo in the 20th C.: social & economic aspects," Inter-American Economic Affairs 8 (1954):3-60.
Paoli, Maria Célia. "Working-class São Paulo & its representations, 1900-1940," Latin American Perspectives 53 (spr 87):204-25.
Raposo, Juliana. "Mayor orders billboard shacks destroyed," in R.J. Levine & J.J. Crocitti (eds.) The Brazil Reader (Durham NC: Duke, 1999), pp. 441-46.
Rochas, Jan. "São Paulo: acting on faith," NACLA Report 23,4 (11-12/89):36-40.
Roussel, Monique. "'Favelas' et pouvoir municipal a São Paulo: de la repression a la tolérance," Revue du Tiers-Monde 29 (10-12/88):1067-81.
Singer, Paul. "Neighborhood movements in São Paulo," in H. Safá (eds.) Towards a Political Economy of Urbanization in Third World Countries (New Delhi, 1982), pp. 283-304.
Spyer, Julia. "A letter from Brazil," in R.M. Levine & J.J. Crocitti (eds.) The Brazil Reader (Durham NC: Duke, 1999), pp. 277-79. Police extorsion of slum dwellers.
Weffort, Francisco. "Raízes sociais do populismo em São Paulo," Revista Civilização Brasileira 1,2 (Rio de Janeiro, 1965), pp. 39-60.
__________. "Nordestinos em São Paulo: notas para um estudo sobre cultura nacional e cultura popular," in Edénio Valle e José J. Queiroz (eds.) A cultura do povo (São Paulo, 1979), pp. 13-23.
In the Library: Non-Fiction Books
Andrews, George Reid. Blacks & Whites in São Paulo, Brazil, 1888-1899 (Madison: U. of Wisconsin, 1991).
Archdiocese of São Paulo, Papal Commission on Justice & Peace. São Paulo, Growth & Poverty [1975] (London: Bowerdean, 1978).
Berlinck, Manoel Tosta. Marginalidade social e relaçoes de classe em São Paulo (Petrópolis: Vozes, 1975).
Capelato, Maria Helena e Maria Ligia Coelho Prado. O bravo matutino: imprensa e ideologia no jornal "O Estado de São Paulo" (São Paulo, 1980).
Fisher, William H. & Kevin Mundy. Social Struggles & the City: The Case of São Paulo (NY, 1994).
Fonseca, Guido. História da prostituição em São Paulo (São Paulo, 1982).
French, John D. The Brazilian Workers' ABC: Class Conflict & Alliances in Modern São Paulo (Chapel Hill: U. of North Carolina, 1992).
__________ & Daniel James (eds.) The Gendered Worlds of Latin American Workers: From Household & Factory to the Union Hall & Ballot Box (Durham NC: Duke, 1997).
__________. Afogados em leis: a CLT e a cultura política dos trabalhadores brasileiros (São Paulo: Fundação Perseu Abramo, 2001).
Kowarick, Lucio (ed.) Social Struggles & the City: The Case of São Paulo (NY: Monthly Review, 199?).
Lopes, Jose Sergio Leite. A tecelagem dos conflictos de classe na "cidade das chamines" (São Pualo, 1988).
Love, Joseph. São Paulo in the Brazilian Federation, 1889-1937 (Stanford: Stanford, 1979).
Moises, Jose Alvaro. Greve de massa e crise política (São Paulo, 1978).
__________ e otros. Alternativas populares da democracia (Petrópolis, 1982).
Morse, Richard M. From Community to Metropolis: A Biography of São Paulo, Brazil (Gainesville: U. of Florida, 1958).
Nozoe, Nelson Hideki. São Paulo: economia cafeeira e urbanização (São Paulo, 1984).
Sandoval, Salvador A.M. Social Change & Labor Unresdt in Brazil since 1945 (Boulder: Westview, 1993).
Singer, Paul & Vinicius Caldeira Brant (eds.) São Paulo: o povo em movimento (Petropolis, 1980).
Weinstein, Barbara. For Social Peace in Brazil: Industrialists & the Remaking of the Working Class in São Paulo, 1920-1964 (Chapel Hill: U. of North Carolina, 1996).
Wirth, John D. & Robert L. Jones (eds.) Manchester & São Paulo: Problems of Rapid Urban Growth (Stanford: Stanford, 1978).
Wolfe, Joel. Working Women, Working Men: São Paulo & the Rise of Brazil's Industrial Working Class, 1900-1955 (Durham NC: Duke, 1993).
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CD & Audio
Film & Video
"Carandiru" [2003], dir. Hector Babenco, 148m. In video stores. Brilliant evocation of life & human relationships inside overcrowded state penitentiary.
"Favelas" [1989], dir. Chico Teixeira, 50m. From Cinema Guild. Explores slums of Brazil's wealthiest industrial city.
"Gaijin, a Brazilian Odyssey (Gaijin, os caminhos da liberdade)" [1980], dir. Tizuka Yamasaki, 112m. From New Yorker Films. Struggles of Japanese immigrants in early 20th c.
"Pixote: a lei do mais fraco" [1981], dir. Hector Babenco, 122m. In video stores. Harsh life of a 10-year-old boy prostitute on streets of São Paulo, & brutal treatment by police.
"Who Killed Pixote? (Quem matou Pixote?)" [1996], dir. Jose Joffily, 120m. Story of young actor in Hector Babenco's classic film, who after trying without success to make a living as an actor got involved with crime & ended up being shot by police.