Workers' control in Latin America, 1930-1979 / edited by Jonathan C. Brown.
1997
HD8110.5 .W67 1997eb
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Title
Workers' control in Latin America, 1930-1979 / edited by Jonathan C. Brown.
ISBN
080786059X (electronic bk.)
9780807860595 (electronic bk.)
0807823627 (cloth ; alk. paper)
080784666X (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780807823620 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780807846667 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780807860595 (electronic bk.)
0807823627 (cloth ; alk. paper)
080784666X (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780807823620 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780807846667 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
Imprint
Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, ©1997.
Language
English
Language Note
English.
Description
1 online resource (xiv, 328 pages) : illustrations, maps
Call Number
HD8110.5 .W67 1997eb
System Control No.
(OCoLC)44960806
Summary
The years between 1930 and 1979 witnessed a period of intense labor activity in Latin America as workers participated in strikes, unionization efforts, and populist and revolutionary movements. The ten original essay in this volume examine sugar mill seizures in Cuba, oil nationalization and railway strikes in Mexico, the attempted revolution in Guatemala, railway nationalization and Peronism in Argentina, Brazil's textile strikes, the Bolivian revolution of 1952, Peru's copper strikes, and copper nationalization in Chile - all important national events in which industrial laborers played critical roles. Demonstrating an illuminating, bottom-up approach to Latin American labor history, these essays investigate the everyday acts through which workers attempted to assert more control over the work process and thereby add dignity to their lives. Working together, they were able to bring shop floor struggles to public attention and - at certain critical junctures - to influence events on a national scale.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-320) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Introduction : what is worker's control? / Jonathan C. Brown
To relieve the misery : sugar mill workers and the 1933 Cuban revolution / Michael Marconi Braga
Acting for themselves : workers and the Mexican oil nationalization / Jonathan C. Brown
Rehabilitating the workers : the U.S. railway mission to Mexico / Andrea Spears
Maintaining unity : railway workers and the Guatemalan revolution / Marc Christian McLeod
As you sow, so shall you reap : Argentine labor and the railway nationalization / Mariá Celina Tuozzo
Topics not suitable for propaganda : working-class resistance under Peronism / Michael Snodgrass
There should be dignity : São Paulo's women textile workers and the "Strike of 300,189" / Joel Wolfe
Struggling for emancipation : tungsten miners and the Bolivian revolution / Andrew Boeger
Continuing to be peasants : union militancy among Peruvian miners / Josh DeWind
Defending the nation's interest : Chilean miners and the copper nationalization / Joanna Swanger
Workers' control in Latin America / Jonathan C. Brown.
To relieve the misery : sugar mill workers and the 1933 Cuban revolution / Michael Marconi Braga
Acting for themselves : workers and the Mexican oil nationalization / Jonathan C. Brown
Rehabilitating the workers : the U.S. railway mission to Mexico / Andrea Spears
Maintaining unity : railway workers and the Guatemalan revolution / Marc Christian McLeod
As you sow, so shall you reap : Argentine labor and the railway nationalization / Mariá Celina Tuozzo
Topics not suitable for propaganda : working-class resistance under Peronism / Michael Snodgrass
There should be dignity : São Paulo's women textile workers and the "Strike of 300,189" / Joel Wolfe
Struggling for emancipation : tungsten miners and the Bolivian revolution / Andrew Boeger
Continuing to be peasants : union militancy among Peruvian miners / Josh DeWind
Defending the nation's interest : Chilean miners and the copper nationalization / Joanna Swanger
Workers' control in Latin America / Jonathan C. Brown.
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