abstract: 'Contemporary Brazil is portrayed based on aggregate data on work,

  employment, income, poverty, and inequality, seeking to establish the

  recent of the social macrodynamic. To this end, the authors analyze role

  of the exponential increase of employment, the reduction of unemployment

  and informalization; real minimum wage increases and the rise of average

  salaries, the strengthening of Social Security and social programs; the

  retreat of extreme poverty. This set of data comparatively indicates

  that, while the Cardoso government turned toward private investment,

  monetary and fiscal restriction, and state reform (in the ``modern{''''}

  sense of decreasing its size), in the Lula government another

  perspective of ``modernization{''''}: the reinforcement of state capacity

  to achieve ``embedded autonomy{''''}. It concludes that the challenge of

  modernization is still guided towards redistribution of wealth, the

  creation of an effective Welfare State and sovereign insertion in the

  international arena.'
affiliation: 'Conde, ES (Corresponding Author), Univ Fed Juiz de Fora UFJF, Juiz De
  Fora, MG, Brazil.

  Conde, Eduardo Salomao, Univ Fed Juiz de Fora UFJF, Juiz De Fora, MG, Brazil.

  Fonseca, Francisco, Fundacao Getulio Vargas FGV, Escola Adm Empresas Sao Paulo Easp,
  Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil.

  Fonseca, Francisco, Pontificia Univ Catolica Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil.'
author: Conde, Eduardo Salomao and Fonseca, Francisco
author-email: 'eduardosconde@gmail.com

  franciscocpfonseca@gmail.com'
author_list:
- family: Conde
  given: Eduardo Salomao
- family: Fonseca
  given: Francisco
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1590/00115258201541
eissn: 1678-4588
files: []
issn: 0011-5258
journal: DADOS-REVISTA DE CIENCIAS SOCIAIS
keywords: labor; income; inequality; social policy; development
language: Portuguese
number: '1'
number-of-cited-references: '19'
pages: 151-185
papis_id: 5bf37e2701f3c35fa2b13b1ab6d2fe48
ref: Conde2015braziliansocial
times-cited: '1'
title: 'The Brazilian Social Macrodynamic: Changes, Continuities and Challenges'
type: Article
unique-id: WOS:000354954400005
usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
usage-count-since-2013: '9'
volume: '58'
web-of-science-categories: Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
year: '2015'