Workers' control in Latin America, 1930-1979 /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Brown, Jonathan C., 1951-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, ©1997.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Working class > Political activity > Latin America.
Railroads > Employees > Political activity > Latin America.
Miners > Political activity > Latin America.
Strikes and lockouts > Latin America > History > 20th century.
Industrial relations > Latin America > History > 20th century.
Travailleurs > Activité politique > Amérique latine.
Chemins de fer, Travailleurs des > Amérique latine > Activité politique.
Mineurs > Activité politique > Amérique latine.
Grèves et lock-out > Amérique latine > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Relations industrielles > Amérique latine > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Travailleurs des chemins de fer > Activité politique > Amérique latine.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Process > Political Advocacy.
Industrial relations.
Miners > Political activity.
Railroads > Employees > Political activity.
Strikes and lockouts.
Working class > Political activity.
Arbeiterbewegung
Aufsatzsammlung
Arbeidsomstandigheden.
Labor & Workers' Economics.
Business & Economics.
Grèves et lock-out > Amérique latine.
Travailleurs > Amérique latine.
Relations industrielles > Amérique latine > 20e siècle.
Geschichte 1930-1979.
Latin America.
Lateinamerika
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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