ROBERT J. ALEXANDER is Professor Emeritus of Economics and Political Science, Rutgers University. He was a member of John F. Kennedy's Task Force on Latin America where the Alliance for Progress was developed, and he is a former consultant to the American Federation of Labor and the AFL-CIO on Latin American and Caribbean organized labor. One of the country's most respected scholars of Latin American politics and economic affairs, Professor Alexander is the author or editor of forty-five earlier books, most of them focusing on Latin America and the Caribbean, including The Bolivian National Revolution, the first English-language study of that upheaval, and the history of labor and radical movements.

"This survey charts the history of Brazilian organized labor from the late 19th and early 20th centuries to the present....much of his information is based on interviews with high-ranking labor officials and other influential actors in these affairs. This perspective brings the story alive....Comprehensive academic collections." - Choice

• Preface Introduction Organized Labor Before the 1930 Revolution Organized Labor in the Vargas Era (1930-1945) Unionism in Democratic Interregnum 1945-1964 Part I Unionism in Democratic Interregnum 1945-1964 Part II Unionism During the 1964-1985 Military Dictatorship Organized Labor and the Restoration of Democracy Bibliography Index

ROBERT J. ALEXANDER is Professor Emeritus of Economics and Political Science, Rutgers University. He was a member of John F. Kennedy's Task Force on Latin America where the Alliance for Progress was developed, and he is a former consultant to the American Federation of Labor and the AFL-CIO on Latin American and Caribbean organized labor. One of the country's most respected scholars of Latin American politics and economic affairs, Professor Alexander is the author or editor of forty-five earlier books, most of them focusing on Latin America and the Caribbean, including The Bolivian National Revolution, the first English-language study of that upheaval, and the history of labor and radical movements.

"This survey charts the history of Brazilian organized labor from the late 19th and early 20th centuries to the present....much of his information is based on interviews with high-ranking labor officials and other influential actors in these affairs. This perspective brings the story alive....Comprehensive academic collections." - Choice

• Preface Introduction Organized Labor Before the 1930 Revolution Organized Labor in the Vargas Era (1930-1945) Unionism in Democratic Interregnum 1945-1964 Part I Unionism in Democratic Interregnum 1945-1964 Part II Unionism During the 1964-1985 Military Dictatorship Organized Labor and the Restoration of Democracy Bibliography Index

ROBERT J. ALEXANDER is Professor Emeritus of Economics and Political Science, Rutgers University. He was a member of John F. Kennedy's Task Force on Latin America where the Alliance for Progress was developed, and he is a former consultant to the American Federation of Labor and the AFL-CIO on Latin American and Caribbean organized labor. One of the country's most respected scholars of Latin American politics and economic affairs, Professor Alexander is the author or editor of forty-five earlier books, most of them focusing on Latin America and the Caribbean, including The Bolivian National Revolution, the first English-language study of that upheaval, and the history of labor and radical movements.

"This survey charts the history of Brazilian organized labor from the late 19th and early 20th centuries to the present....much of his information is based on interviews with high-ranking labor officials and other influential actors in these affairs. This perspective brings the story alive....Comprehensive academic collections." - Choice

• Preface Introduction Organized Labor Before the 1930 Revolution Organized Labor in the Vargas Era (1930-1945) Unionism in Democratic Interregnum 1945-1964 Part I Unionism in Democratic Interregnum 1945-1964 Part II Unionism During the 1964-1985 Military Dictatorship Organized Labor and the Restoration of Democracy Bibliography Index