Title: Os pobres da cidade
Subtitle: vida e trabalho, 1880-1920
Description: "Broad treatment, based on extensive archival and newspaper research, of development of an urban working class in late-19th-century Porto Alegre. Details difficult living and working conditions of the poor and development of group identity and class consciousness. Also looks at elite reform campaigns meant to 'moralize' the lower orders"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
Subjects: History, Working class, Urban poor, Social Marginality
Places: Brazil