Work, Protest, and Identity in Twentieth-Century Latin America

by Peloso, Vincent C.

• ISBN13: 9780842029278
• ISBN10: 0842029273
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-08-01
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc

Summary

This text takes a novel approach to labor. Rather than examine the labor movement, labor unions, and labor organizing, Work, Protest, and Identity in Twentieth-Century Latin America sets work in the context of social history in Latin America. It com

Table of Contents

VINCENT C. PELOSO, Introduction,	xiii
1 ALEJANDRO DE LA FUENTE, Immigration and Race in Cuba,	1	(24)
2 JEFFREY D. NEEDELL, Rebellion against Vaccination in Rio de Janeiro,	25	(38)
3 ANTON ROSENTHAL, General Strike in Montevideo,	63	(24)
4 ANN FARNSWORTH-ALVEAR, Women, Men(?), and a Strike in Colombian Mills,	87	(24)
5 DAVID S. PARKER, Laws against a "Working" Middle Class in Peru,	111	(14)
6 MARC BECKER, Race, Gender, and Protest in Ecuador,	125	(18)
7 MIGUEL TINKER-SALAS, Races and Cultures in the Venezuelan Oil Fields,	143	(22)
8 MARIA DEL CARMEN BAERGA, Women and the Right to (Needle) Work in Puerto Rico,	165	(26)
9 CATHERINE LEGRAND, Colombian Bananas, Peasants, and Wage Workers,	191	(24)
10 NORMAN CAULFIELD, Labor Control in the Declining Mexican Revolution,	215	(20)
11 RACHEL MAY, The Human Details and Argentine Militancy,	235	(12)
12 THOMAS MILLER KLUBOCK, Copper Workers and Popular Protest in Chile,	247	(30)
13 ANTHONY W. PEREIRA, Brazilian Workers and Democracy,	277	(24)
14 MICHAEL F. JIMÉNEZ, Looking Ahead: Workers and Radical Christianity,	301	(22)
15 KENNETH M. ROBERTS, Latin America's New Social Landscape: Who Will Be the Workers?	323	(16)
Suggested Readings,	339	(4)
Suggested Films,	343	(2)
About the Contributors,	345