Author Question: By the late 1950s and early 1960s, Brazilian workers did all of the following except A) elect ... (Read 511 times)

tiara099 · **on:** Jul 4, 2018

By the late 1950s and early 1960s, Brazilian workers did all of the following except

A) elect leftist union leaders less inclined to collaborate with industrialists or the state.
B) become a more significant political force and expanded their autonomy from state controls.
C) increasingly rely on strikes and uncompromising demands for wage hikes to secure their interests.
D) elect national and state political leaders whose nationalist programs protected Brazilians from foreign competition.

Question 2

Blunted by repression and war-time cooptation of union leadership, worker discontent

A) disappeared in the prosperity that flowed from import substitution industrialization.
B) gave way to a new era of trade union corruption, quiet cooperation, and class harmony.
C) was limited to isolated textile companies that viciously exploited women and child labor.
D) expressed itself in popular protest sambas, clandestine factory commissions, and spreading absenteeism.