Roofless Workers’ Movement and sub-proletarianization: elements for a debate on the working class in Brazil

This article attempts to characterize the activists of the Movement of Roofless Workers (MTST)as part part of the contemporary proletariat, highlighting the potential for resistance of theurban sub-proletariat and arguing against the hegemonic vision of this part of the workingclass as “informal wor...

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Autor principal: Goulart, Débora
Formato: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Lenguaje:Portugués
Publicado: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/ls/article/view/18504
http://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/49791
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Sumario:This article attempts to characterize the activists of the Movement of Roofless Workers (MTST)as part part of the contemporary proletariat, highlighting the potential for resistance of theurban sub-proletariat and arguing against the hegemonic vision of this part of the workingclass as “informal workers” and/or individual enterpreneurs.