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Volta Redonda is a Brazilian steel town founded in the 1940s by dictator Getulio Vargas on an ex-coffee valley as a powerful symbol of Brazilian modernization. The city's economy, and consequently its citizen's lives, revolves around the Companha Siderurgica Nacional (CSN), the biggest industrial complex in Latin America. Although the glory days of the CSN have long passed, the company still controls life in Volta Redonda today, creating as much dispossession as wealth for the community. Brazilian Steel Town tells the story of the people tied to this ailing giant - of their fears, hopes, and everyday struggles.

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This is an excellent book...The case of Volta Redonda presented here, I believe, will be of interest to many engaged in the study of labour, heavy industries, and global capitalism at this current moment in time. Elisabeth Schober, University of Oslo This is an impressive book that is ethnographically rich, insightful and theoretically rigorous. It addresses important questions on the transformations of industry, workers, livelihoods and states in developing nations during different periods of global economic restructuring and particularly under the imperatives of the financialization of economies and polities. Winnie Lem, Trent University

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Massimiliano Mollona is Senior Lecturer at Goldsmiths College, London, where he teaches Economic and Political Anthropology and Art and Anthropology. Among his publications are Made in Sheffield, an Ethnography of Industrial Work and Politics (2009, Berghahn) and with Don Kalb, Worldwide Mobilizations : Class Struggles and Urban Commoning (2018, Berghahn).

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