INTRODUCTION
Brazil: State and Citizens in Pursuit of National Goals
PAULO C. GAERTNER SIMOES 3
ARTICLES
The Dilemmas of the New Unionism in Brasil : Breaks and Continuities
RICARDO ANTUNES AND MARCO AURELIO SANTANA 10
The State, Unions and Work Reorganization: Lessons from Today's Brasil
LEONARDO MELLO E SILVA 22
Confidence in Brazilian Unions: A Longitudinal Analysis
LORENZO FRANGI AND VINCENZO MEMOLI 42
The New Developmentalism and the Challenges to Long Term Stability in Brasil
IAN R. CARRILLO 59
Brazil's Cooperatin with Sub-Saharan Africa in the Rural Sector:
The international Circulation of Instruments of Public Policy
CAROLINA MILHORANCE DE CASTRO 75
Social Classes, Neodevelopmentalism, and Brazilian Foreign Policy
under Presidents Lula and Dilma
ARMANDO BOITO AND TATIANA BERRINGER 94
From Stores to Banks: The Financialization of the Retail Trade in Brazil
PETRICIA SALTORATO, LARISSA CECILIA DOMINGUES, JULIO CESAR DONADONE,
AND MARCIA REGINA NEVES GUIMARAES 110
Political Culture and the Demoncratization of Communications in Brazil
IVONETE DA SILVA LOPES 129
Affirmative Action and Political Dispute in Today's Brazilian Academe
SALES AUGUSTO DOS SANTOS 141
From African Survivals to a Working Class Afro-Brazilian Culture
ARI LIMA 157
Military Ties between France and Brazil during the Cold War, 1959-1975
JOAO ROBERTO MARTINS FILHO 167
The Brazilian Labor Movement under PT governments
ANDREIA GALVAO 184
FILM REVIEW
Force and Meaning: Political Hauntings in Two Contemporary Brazilian Films
KRISTI M. WILSON 200