Norberto Ferreras (norbertoferreras@id.uff.br) is an associate professor at the Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF). He received his Ph.D. in Social History from the State University of Campinas - Unicamp (2001) and holds a Master's Degree in History from the Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF) (1995). Between September 2014 and June 2014, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University, Weatherhead Initiative on Global History. He is also a member of the Poverty Research Network in the Global History and Culture Centre at Warwick University. He studies Latin American History, working mainly on the following themes: Work Systems, Workers and Social Movements. He also developed a research on a relationship between the ILO and Latin America between 1930 and the present day focusing on forced labor and slavery-like work. His current research focuses on territory, workers and natural environment in Brazil and Argentina during the 19th and 20th century, in a comparative perspective.
His publications include:
A questão nacional e as tradições nacional-estatistas no Brasil, América Latina e África, 1. ed. Rio de Janeiro: Fundação Getúlio Vargas, 2015. v. 500. 260p.
“Europa-Geneva-America: The First International Conference of American States Members of the International Labour Organization” in Alan McPherson e Yannick Wehrli. (Org.). Beyond Geopolitics. New Histories of Latin American at the League of Nations, 1ed.Albuquerque, New mexico: University of New Mexico Press, 2015, v. 1, p. 83-96.
“La modernité intégrée par les peuples indigènes: L’Organisation internationale du travail et l’Amérique latine, la question des peuples indigènes et tribaux”, in Daniel Aarão Reis; Denis Rolland. (Org.), Modernites Nationales Modernites Importees entre Ancien et Nouveau Monde XIXe-XXIe siècle, 1ed.Paris: L’Harmattan, 2012, p.305-324.
“Historia e historiografía de las condiciones de vida de los trabajadores en la Argentina y el Brasil. Un analisis comparativo de Buenos Aires y Rio de Janeiro. Pós-História”, Assis-SP, v. 5, p. 11-32, 1997,
“Entre a expansão e a sobrevivência: a viagem de Albert Thomas ao Cone Sul da América”. Antíteses (Londrina), v. 4, p. 127-150, 2011.
