The Shifting Ground of Globalization: Labor and Mineral Extraction at Vale S.A.: 239 (Studies in Critical Social Sciences)

Aguiar, Thiago

ISBN 10: 9004531939 / ISBN 13: 9789004531932

Published by Brill, 2023

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304 pages. 9.50x6.25x1.00 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Shifting Ground of Globalization: Labor and Mineral Extraction at Vale S.A.: 239 (Studies in Critical Social Sciences)
• Publisher: Brill
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004531939
• ISBN 13: 9789004531932
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.63 kilograms

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Synopsis

The Shifting Ground of Globalization: Labor and Mineral Extraction at Vale S.A. describes the transformation of the formerly state-owned Brazilian mining company into a Transnational Corporation, global leader in iron ore and nickel extraction. Through ethnographic research in Brazil and Canada, in places as different as Carajás, in the heart of the Amazon rainforest, and Sudbury, in northern Ontario, Thiago Aguiar dialogues with the theories of global capitalism and takes the case of the largest Latin American company as a telling example of the integration of the Brazilian economy into capitalist globalization and its consequences for workers, communities, and the environment in the first decades of the twenty-first century – when many celebrated the BRICS as an alternative to neoliberal globalization.

About the Author

Thiago Aguiar holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of São Paulo, and was visiting researcher at the University of California, Berkeley. He is currently a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Sociology at IFCH-Unicamp and an associate researcher at the Center for the Study of Citizenship Rights (Cenedic-USP). He is also the author of O solo movediço da globalização: trabalho e extração mineral na Vale S.A. (Boitempo, 2022) and Maquiando o trabalho: opacidade e transparência numa empresa de cosméticos global (Annablume, 2017).