at General Motors’ plant in
Ohio, or at Volkswagen’s plant in the ABC region of São Paulo for that matter,
so much worse off than the white worker beside him (or her) on the assembly
line? Not so much. The real local discrepancies are between those who have
fairly reliable, even unionized jobs, and those relegated to poverty and the informal economy.1 And then there are the global discrepancies: auto workers’ wages
in the ABC, heartland of the highly developed Brazilian manufacturing economy…
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