Week 5: Social Rights from Above and Below
Social Rights from above and below (1929-73): Socialism, nationalism, populism, revolution
How did the nature of rights afforded by Latin American states change in the twentieth century? What impact did the twentieth century revolutions have on rights discourses? What was the contribution of Latin American states to the international human rights system?
Primary Sources:
(Argentina 1951), .
Daniel James " Peron and the People" and Tomas Eloy Martinez "Santa Evita" in Gabriela Nouzeilles and Graciela Montaldo (eds.) The Argentina Reader: History Culture and Politics. Duke, 2002, pp. 273-303.
Core Reading:
Secondary sources:
Alan McPherson, and Yannick Wehrli (eds.) , University of New Mexico Press, 2015. (Part 2: Labour-chapter of your choice)
and/ or
Okezi Otovo, University of Texas Press, 2016. (Especially and Introduction if it helps).
Primary sources:
What do the primary sources tell us about mid-twentieth-century populist governments relationship with labour and their approach to social rights?
Look at this trade union leaflet about social security from Brazil. What are the limitations as a source for you as a researcher? Are there any ways that you could use it despite the limitations? What other information would you need to find in order to use the source?
Background Reading:
Robert M Levine, Father of the Poor? Vargas and his Era (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998) chapter 3, 鈥淭he Estado Novo,鈥� pp 50-74 a
Relevant Chapters of Matthew Brown or Alexander Dawson's readers).
Further Reading:
Carlos Aguirre and Paulo Drinot. The Peculiar Revolution: Rethinking the Peruvian Experiment Under Military Rule. University of Texas Press, 2017.
Paulina Alberto. University of North Carolina Press, 2011, Chapters 2 and 3.
Carmagnani, Marcello. , University of California Press, 2011. Chapter 5.
Matthew Craven, The International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights: A Perspective on Its Development. Oxford, 1995.
Jerry D谩vila. Diploma of whiteness: race and social policy in Brazil, 1917-1945. 2003.
Paolo Drinot, ' Hispanic American Historical Review, 92:4, 2012 703-736.
Eduardo Elena, E. "" In P. Alberto & E. Elena (Eds.), Rethinking Race in Modern Argentina . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016, 184-210.
Paulo Fontes, Migration and the Making of Industrial S茫o Paulo. Duke University Press, 2016.
Linda Fuller, Work and Democracy in Socialist Cuba. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992.
Roberto Garagella. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. (Chapters 6 and 7)
Guy, Donna J.. , Duke University Press, 2009. (Chapter 6)
Jaymie Patricia Heilman. Stanford University Press, 2010. (Relevant Chapters)
Kaitlyn Henderson. Race, Discrimination, and the Cuban Constitution of 1940. Hispanic American Historical Review 1 May 2020; 100 (2): 257–284.
Daniel James, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Alan Knight. 鈥淧opulism and Neo-Populism in Latin America, Especially Mexico.鈥� Journal of Latin American Studies, vol. 30, no. 2, 1998, p. 223.
Florencia E. Mallon. . Princeton, 2014.
Roxborough, Ian. 鈥�.鈥� The Cambridge History of Latin America, edited by Leslie Bethell, vol. 6, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1995, pp. 305–378. The Cambridge History of Latin America.
Snodgrass, Michael. Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Magdalena Sep煤lveda,The Nature of the Obligations under the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (Antwerp, 2003).
Marcela Garc铆a Sebastiani, 鈥楾he Other Side of Peronist Argentina: Radicals and Socialists in the Political Opposition to Per贸n (1946–1955)鈥�, Journal of Latin American Studies, Vol. 35 (2003), pp. 311–339.
Alberto Spektorowski, 'The Ideological Origins and Right and Left Nationalism in Argentina, 1930-1943', Journal of Contemporary History , Vol. 29, No. 1 (1994), pp. 155-184.
William Suarez Potts, 鈥淭he Ambiguity of Labor Justice in Mexico, 1907-1931,鈥� in Leon Fink and Juan Manuel Palacio, eds., Labor Justice across the Americas University of Illinois Press, 2018.
Cheryl B. Welch, 鈥楲iberalism and Social Rights鈥� in Murray Milgate and Cheryl B. Welch (eds.), Critical Issues in Social Thought (London, 1989).
Barbara Weinstein, The Colour of Modernity: S茫o Paulo and the Making of Race and Nation in Brazil. Duke University Press, 2015.
Cliff Welch, The seed was planted: the S盲o Paulo roots of Brazil's rural labor movement, 1924-1964. 1999.
Daryle Williams, Culture wars in Brazil: the first Vargas regime, 1930-1945. 2001.
Joel Wolfe, Working Women, Working Men: S茫o Paulo and the Rise of Brazil's Industrial Working Class, 1900–1955. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1993.
Daniel J. Whelan, Indivisible Human Rights – A History (Univ. of Pennsylvania, 2010).