TY  - BOOK
AU  - Acker, Antoine
TI  - Volkswagen in the Amazon: the tragedy of global development in modern Brazil 
SN  - 9781316647776
U1  - 338.981 ACK-A 
PY  - 2017///
CY  - United Kingdom
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Brazil
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Volkswagenwerk
KW  - Ecology
KW  - Economic history
KW  - Cattle trade
KW  - Investments, German
KW  - Ranches
N1  - From 1973 to 1987, Volkswagen's (VW) 140,000 hectare 'pioneer' cattle ranch on the Amazon frontier laid bare the limits of capitalist development. These limits were not only economic, with the core management of a multinational company engaged in the 'integration' of an extreme world periphery, but they were also legal and ethical, with the involvement of indentured labor and massive forest burning. Its physical limits were exposed by an unpredictable ecosystem refusing to submit to VW's technological arsenal. Antoine Acker reveals how the VW ranch, a major project supported by the Brazilian military dictatorship, was planned, negotiated, and eventually undone by the intervention of internationally connected actors and events
ER  -