The Shifting Ground of Globalization

Labor and Mineral Extraction at Vale S.A.

Thiago Aguiar, William I. Robinson

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English

Haymarket Books
16 April 2024

History of the Americas; Globalization; Mining industry

The Shifting Ground of Globalization: Labor and Mineral Extraction at Vale S.A. describes the transformation of the formerly state-owned Brazilian mining company into a Transnational Corporation, global leader in iron ore and nickel extraction.

Through ethnographic research in Brazil and Canada, in places as different as Carajs, in the heart of the Amazon rainforest, and Sudbury, in northern Ontario, Thiago Aguiar dialogues with the theories of global capitalism and takes the case of the largest Latin American company as a telling example of the integration of the Brazilian economy into capitalist globalization and its consequences for workers, communities, and the environment in the first decades of the twenty-first century-when many celebrated the BRICS as an alternative to neoliberal globalization.

By: Thiago Aguiar
Foreword by: William I. Robinson
Imprint: Haymarket Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 228mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9798888902240
Pages: 306
Publication Date: 16 April 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Thiago Aguiar holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of So Paulo, and was visiting researcher at the University of California, Berkeley. He is currently a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Sociology at IFCH-Unicamp and an associate researcher at the Center for the Study of Citizenship Rights (Cenedic-USP). He is also the author of O solo movedio da globalizao: trabalho e extrao mineral na Vale S.A. and Maquiando o trabalho: opacidade e transparncia numa empresa de cosmticos global.