Drowning in Laws: Labor Law and the Brazilian Political Culture

From: Canadian Journal of Latin American & Caribbean Studies | Date: January 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

John D. French Drowning in Laws: Labor Law and the Brazilian Political Culture Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2004, 233 pp.

John D. French is a prominent member of a new generation of historians of Latin America committed to the renewal of our scholarly knowledge about critical junctures in the region's history. In Drowning in Laws, French mobilizes a vast array literature, original documents, and interviews in order to defend competently and elegantly some crucial ideas and hypotheses about Brazil's most important and long-lasting code of law, the Consolidation ...

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