The Politics of the Possible: The Brazilian Rural Workers' Trade Union Movement, 1964-1985 Book

	Tables and Figure
	Preface
	Introduction	1
1	Posing the Problem: Rural Union Development under Dictatorship, 1964-1985	11
2	Solving the Problem: Explaining Progressive Rural Unionization in the 1964-1985 Period	26
3	Nazare da Mata, Pernambuco: Birthplace of the CONTAG Line	63
4	Capivari, Sao Paulo: Conservative Unionism of the Jose Rotta Line	80
5	Porto Nacional, Goias: Frontier Development, Posseiros, and Grileiros	99
6	Cangucu, Rio Grande do Sul: Assistencialismo in Theory and Practice	125
7	Mage, Rio de Janeiro: Posseiros of the Urban Periphery	146
8	Santa Cruz Cabralia, Bahia: Union Radicalism on Brazil's First and Last Frontier	173
9	Grassroots Movements Confronting State Apparatuses: Possibilities and Constraints in Comparative Perspective	201
	App. A: Statistical Summary of the Development of the Rural Trade Union Movement in Brazil, 1960-1986	219
	App. B: Interview with Francisco "Chico" Mendes, Xapuri, Acre, Brazil, November 1988	221
	Glossary	241
	Notes	247
	Bibliography	267
	Index	289