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Workers’ Control in Latin America, 1930-1979

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The years between 1930 and 1979 witnessed a period of intense labor activity in Latin The usa as workers participated in strikes, unionization efforts, and populist and revolutionary movements. The ten original essays AEMDNMOin 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 the copper nationalization in Chile–all essential national events during which industrial laborers played important roles. Demonstrating an illuminating, bottom-up option to Latin American labor history, these essays investigate the on a regular basis acts wherein workers attempted to assert more keep watch over over the work process and thereby add dignity to their lives. Working together, they were in a position to bring shop floor struggles to public attention and–at certain important junctures–to steer events on a national scale. The contributors are Andrew Boeger, Michael Marconi Braga, Jonathan C. Brown, Josh DeWind, Marc Christian McLeod, Michael Snodgrass, Andrea Spears, Joanna Swanger, Maria Celina Tuozzo, and Joel Wolfe.

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