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Title Workers' control in Latin America, 1930-1979 / edited by Jonathan C. Brown.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, [1997]
©1997

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 328 pages) : illustrations, maps
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-320) and index.
Contents 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.
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.
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Subject Working class -- Political activity -- Latin America.
Working class -- Political activity.
Latin America.
Railroads -- Employees -- Political activity -- Latin America.
Railroads -- Employees -- Political activity.
Railroads -- Employees.
Miners -- Political activity -- Latin America.
Miners -- Political activity.
Miners.
Strikes and lockouts -- Latin America -- History -- 20th century.
Strikes and lockouts.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Industrial relations -- Latin America -- History -- 20th century.
Industrial relations.
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Brown, Jonathan C. (Jonathan Charles), 1942-
Other Form: Print version: Workers' control in Latin America, 1930-1979. Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, ©1997 0807823627 (DLC) 97001880 (OCoLC)36372334
ISBN 080786059X (electronic book)
9780807860595 (electronic book)
0807823627 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
080784666X (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9780807823620 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780807846667 (paperback ; alkaline paper)