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Article: Family and Favela: The Reproduction of Poverty in Rio de Janeiro
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- Journal of Third World Studies
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- October 1, 1999
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Pino, Julio C6sar. Family and Favela: The Reproduction of Poverty in Rio de Janeiro. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997. 193 pp.
In Family and Favela: The Reproduction of Poverty in Rio de Janeiro, the tenth volume in Greenwood's Contributions in Latin American Studies series, Julio Cesar Pino takes on the myth of household disorganization of Brazil's urban poor. Using quantitative evidence, Pino, Assistant Professor of History at Kent State University, provides a readable history of family life in Rio de Janeiro's favelas (squatter settlements erected by the poor on illegally occupied land) between the 1930s and the 1960s. Pino examines household structure, economic activity, living ...