economic conditions

"Indispensable introduction to Brazil for students and general readers includes short scholarly articles, interviews, documents, photographs, and many autobiographical pieces. Begins with precontact indigenous peoples, but about half deals with Brazil since 1945. Topics include indigenous peoples, slavery, Vargas and labor, political protest, women, race relations, marginal groups, and popular culture. Overarching themes are mobility and repression"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

Argues that the global free trade policies enacted by the U.S. government have led to the decline and fall of the American middle-class; provides information about the history of free trade; and offers advice from the author on how to restore the country.