Land, Protest, and Politics The Landless Movement and the Struggle for Agrarian Reform in Brazil |
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| Author:
| Ondetti, Gabriel |
| ISBN: | 978-0-271-03353-2 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2008 |
| Publisher: | Pennsylvania State University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $66.95 |
Book Description:
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Brazil is a country of extreme inequalities, one of the most important of which is the acute concentration of rural land ownership. In recent decades, however, poor landless workers have mounted a major challenge to this state of affairs. A broad grassroots social movement led by the Movement of Landless Rural Workers (MST) has mobilized ......
Brazil is a country of extreme inequalities, one of the most important of which is the acute concentration of rural land ownership. In recent decades, however, poor landless workers have mounted a major challenge to this state of affairs. A broad grassroots social movement led by the Movement of Landless Rural Workers (MST) has mobilized ......