File spoon-archives/marxism-thaxis.archive/marxism-thaxis_1997/marxism-thaxis.9712, message 717


Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 13:12:20 -0800 (PST)
From: Dennis R Redmond <dredmond-AT-gladstone.uoregon.edu>
Subject: Re: M-TH: Brazil is no longer exotic


On Tue, 30 Dec 1997, Hugh Rodwell wrote:

> For a decade or more now southern Brazil, particularly Sao Paulo, has seen
> spectacular gains in workers' conditions and standards of living.

Do you have statistics to prove this? The Brazilian real is
trending a bit higher in the exchange markets, but this is probably
unsustainable, given the intense class polarization of Brazilian society
and the hurt that a high real has put on exports. Or is the improvement,
if any, limited to the steel workers or employees of foreign
multinationals?

-- Dennis



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