Barbara Weinstein is Professor of History at New York University and author of For Social Peace in Brazil: Industrialists and the Remaking of the Working Class in São Paulo, 1920-1964 (1990) and The Color of Modernity: São Paulo and the Making of Race and Nation in Brazil (2015).

March 19, 2021

Interviews

Party Politics and Social Policy

A conversation between Lena Lavinas, André Singer, and Barbara Weinstein on three decades of party politics and social policy in Brazil.

, André Singer, Barbara Weinstein

In The Takeover of Social Policy by Financialization, Lena Lavinas names the “Brazilian Paradox”: the model of social inclusion implemented by the Workers’ Party under President Lula and President Rousseff promotes a logic of financial inclusion and market incorporation, and…