Workers' Control in Latin America, 1930-1979
Workers' Control in Latin America, 1930-1979

Author: Jonathan C. Brown

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 2000-11-09

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 080786059X

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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 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 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. 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.

Politics and Urban Growth in Buenos Aires, 1910-1942
Politics and Urban Growth in Buenos Aires, 1910-1942

Author: Richard J. Walter

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003-10-16

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9780521530651

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This book, first published in 1994, describes the development of Buenos Aires during the period from 1910 to the early 1940s, focusing on the role of politics and local government in the evolution of the city.

The Argentine Right
The Argentine Right

Author: Sandra McGee Deutsch

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9780842024198

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In The Argentine Right: Its History and Intellectual Origins scholars of Argentine and Latin American history chart the growth of the Right from its roots in 19th-century European political theory through to the collapse of the conservative government in the 1980s. The contributors describe the Right's development, uneasy alliance with Peronists, years of triumph and subsequent retreat to opposition status.

The Cambridge History of Latin America
The Cambridge History of Latin America

Author: Leslie Bethell

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 760

ISBN-13: 9780521465564

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This is an authoritative large-scale history of the whole of Latin America, from the first contacts between native American peoples and Europeans in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries to the present day.

Argentine Workers
Argentine Workers

Author: Peter Ranis

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre

Published: 1992-06-15

Total Pages: 333

ISBN-13: 0822976838

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Argentine Workers provides an insightful analysis of the complex combination of values and attitudes exhibited by workers in a heavily unionized, industrially developing country, while also ascertaining their political beliefs. By analyzing empirical data, Ranis describes what workers think about their unions, employers, private and foreign enterprise, the economy, the state, privatization, landowners, politics, the military, the "dirty war" and the "disappeared," the Montonero guerillas, the church, popular culture and leisure pursuits, and their personal lives and ambitions.

The Fourth Enemy
The Fourth Enemy

Author: James Cane

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 2015-06-17

Total Pages: 347

ISBN-13: 0271067845

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The rise of Juan Perón to power in Argentina in the 1940s is one of the most studied subjects in Argentine history. But no book before this has examined the role the Peronists’ struggle with the major commercial newspaper media played in the movement’s evolution, or what the resulting transformation of this industry meant for the normative and practical redefinition of the relationships among state, press, and public. In The Fourth Enemy, James Cane traces the violent confrontations, backroom deals, and legal actions that allowed Juan Domingo Perón to convert Latin America’s most vibrant commercial newspaper industry into the region’s largest state-dominated media empire. An interdisciplinary study drawing from labor history, communication studies, and the history of ideas, this book shows how decades-old conflicts within the newspaper industry helped shape not just the social crises from which Peronism emerged, but the very nature of the Peronist experiment as well.