Oliver J. Dinius. Brazil's Steel City: Developmentalism, Strategic Power, and Industrial Relations in Volta Redonda, 1941-1964
This work of Dinius joins pioneering Brazilian studies that have used company and personnel records to understand the business end of an enterprise and its management of employees. The book's most original contribution lies in its combination of business history, knowledge of the production process, and quantification to explore the industrial and labor relations of the Companhia Siderurgica Nacional (CSN). Inaugurated after World War II, this famous firm looms large in Brazil: economically as its first steel producer, politically as a symbol of Varguismo, and symbolically as a landmark in the country's industrialization.