num_pages: 297
description: Despite the repressive military dictatorship in Brazil from 1964 to 1985, rural workers' trade unions flourished. This work examines how union leaders carved out a place for themselves in the political order of the country, and how other progressive movements can succeed in comparable situation.
language: English
title: The Politics of the Possible: The Brazilian Rural Workers' Trade Union Movement, 1964-1985
titlecomplete: The Politics of the Possible: The Brazilian Rural Workers' Trade Union Movement, 1964-1985
publisher: Temple University Press