This book offers the first multidisciplinary analysis of the impact of the government of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and his Workers' Party on Brazilian

A history of the Workers Party in Brazil recounts their origins and four successive tries for power before Luiz Incio Lula da Silva's 2002 election as the first

Known around the world simply as Lula, Luis Inacio Lula da Silva was born in 1945 to illiterate parents who migrated to industrializing Sao Paulo. He learned to

This book assesses the performance of the first Lula government (2002-06) from different perspectives including economics, politics, history and social policy.

Ex-President Lula of Brazil has a life that reads like a film script. The child of a dysfunctional family, his early life was one of poverty and chaos. In the 1