brazilianisation

English

Noun

brazilianisation (countable and uncountable, plural brazilianisations)

1. Alternative form of Brazilianization
   • 1986, Socialist Affairs - Issue 2, page 48:

     Invoking the examples of Japan and the United States, he weighs the dangers of economic dualism and the creeping 'brazilianisation' of job markets.

   • 2001, Post proceedings of the World Conference on Cultural Design/Digital Condition Design, →ISBN:

     In his eagerness to show how erroneous the Brazilian modernists were, Holston fails to discuss the desire for modernisation among the Brazilian people. Even if the people demand "brazilianisation", such a process might include elements of modernisation.

   • 2005 -, SEER South-east Europe Review for Labour and Social Affairs:

     Due to the early 1990s crisis, but also to the transition from a work society to a knowledge society, the increasing unemployment rate and the growing incidence of part-time, flexible and 'precarious' employment in westem countries have been documented and described as a 'brazilianisation of the west' (Beck, 2000).

   • 2017, Laura Spinney, Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World:

     They talked about brazilianisation by infection, of Brazil as an immense hospital, and these ideas percolated into literature, reinforced, perhaps, by the memory of those flu-themed parades in the 1919 Rio Carnival, when groups calling themselves 'Midnight Tea' and 'Holy House' sang bawdy songs about a 'Spanish lady'.