Article Subjects and Geography: Brazil
Labor Informality and Unemployment in Brazil: Insights from the Perspective of the Relative Surplus Population
March 1, 2025
Using data from Brazil’s Integrated System of Household Surveys, Renata Falavina and Gabriel Ulbricht employ Marxist categories in order to illuminate the concept of the reserve army of labor in the context of underemployment and informal labor in modern-day Brazil. This view, the authors write, shows that the dichotomy of full employment and unemployment fails to capture the complexity of unstable labor dynamics in a world of informal and precarious work.
An Ecological Civilization Will Have to Be Socialist
January 1, 2025
In this interview with Claudia Antunes of Brazilian magazine Sumaúma, Ian Angus takes stock of our current planetary crisis, from its origins in Marx’s ecological thought and the present debate over its designation to the future of human civilization as we know it. “The key question is,” he concludes, “Are we going to see large number of people moving for change?”
Notes from the Editors, May 2023
May 1, 2023
buy this issue Most of the analysis in Monthly Review on the U.S. role in the Ukraine War thus far has focused on the enlargement of NATO (including the U.S./NATO… READ MORE
Lula’s Return and the Legacy of Destruction
May 1, 2023
Rosa Maria Marques is a professor at the Department of Economics and at the post-graduate program in political economy at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo in São Paulo,… READ MORE
We Only Have One PlanetÑDefending It Will Require Collective Measures
July 1, 2022
João Pedro Stedile is a Brazilian economist, activist, and writer. He is a member of the national board of the Landless Workers’ Movement (MST), of which he is a cofounder…. READ MORE
Measures to Defend Life on Planet Earth and Improve Living Conditions
July 1, 2022
This document came out of the dissatisfaction of Brazilian popular movements with the 2021 UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow. � The measures listed below are a result of collective… READ MORE
The Brazilian Crisis and the New Authoritarianism
June 1, 2020
Lawfare Is the New Authoritarianism Anthony Robert Pahnke is an assistant professor of international relations at San Francisco State University. Marcelo Milan is an assistant professor of economics and international… READ MORE
The Preemptive Counterrevolution and the Rise of the Far Right in Brazil
July 1, 2019
Ricardo Antunes is professor of sociology at the University of Campinas in Brazil. He is the author of many books, including The Meanings of Work (Haymarket Books, 2013). His research… READ MORE