Niemeyer shared these beliefs. A decade later, he exported the British model to Brazil by advising its government “to encourage the formation of a voluntary committee of suitable persons for the organization and propaganda of thrift throughout the country” (Niemeyer 1931, 22). Britain’s experts were, however, under no illusion: aft er the war, the degree to which the system was being contested meant that workers were no longer inclined to abide by the behavioral dictates of the ruling classes.

Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, loc. 900