Culture and Customs of BrazilBloomsbury Academic, 30. juuni 2003 - 195 pages Race, religion, language, culture, and national character are full of contradictions. Brazil, the largest country in South America, embodies so much paradox that it defies neat description. This book will help students and general readers dispel stereotypes of Brazil and begin to understand what country's bigness means in terms of its land, people, history, society, and cultural expressions. |
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... labor force . In the Iberian tradition , they were reluctant to do manual labor themselves and had always managed to conscript others into doing the work for them . But the Indians were few in number ( between one and two million at ...
... labor soon made it cheaper to hire workers than to own slaves . An obvious source of new labor was immigration , which began in the 1850s with between 2,000 and 20,000 immigrants a year . Although Brazil was not considered attractive ...
... labor , he created a new Ministry of Labor out of part of the former Ministry of Agriculture and was at least partly responsible for the creation of labor unions he then used as political support . But he also made sure the big cotton ...
Contents
Print Media and Broadcasting | 95 |
Cinema | 117 |
Literature | 131 |
Copyright | |
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