A Brazilian utopia: Vargas and the construction of the welfare state in a structurally unequal society

This article joins the persistent (and still current) effort to decipher the riddle of Brazil's equally persistent inequality. Resuming the interpretation of modern Brazil proposed by Juarez Brandão Lopes in the 1960s, the article proposes to revisit the "Vargas Era" and its historica...

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Main Author: Adalberto Cardoso
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro 2010-01-01
Series:Dados: Revista de Ciências Sociais
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Online Access:http://socialsciences.scielo.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0011-52582010000100006&lng=en&tlng=en