Labor, Social Change and Politics in Peru
Author: Larry Larson
Publisher:
Published: 1967
Total Pages: 700
ISBN-13:
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The Politics of Workers' Participation
Author: Evelyne Huber Stephens
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 2013-10-22
Total Pages: 309
ISBN-13: 1483268764
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Politics of Workers' Participation: The Peruvian Approach in Comparative Perspective presents a comparative analysis of the development of workers' participation in a variety of politico-economic systems in Peru to other countries in the world. The text focuses on the details of workers' participation in politics and enterprise; empirical evidence substantiating that workers' participation is an issue of fundamental political conflict; and the social forces that promote and oppose workers' participation as part of a transition to a new social order. Political scientists, economists, sociologists, and students will find the book invaluable.
Power, Politics, and Progress
Author: William Foote Whyte
Publisher: New York : Elsevier Scientific Publishing Company
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMonograph on social change in rural areas in Peru - describes historical background of the peasant movement, evolution of and social conflict in rural communitys, political aspects of rural development, etc., and examines the contribution of interdisciplinary research to social theory. Bibliography pp. 301 to 307, graphs, maps and statistical tables.
Revolutionizing Repertoires
Author: Robert S. Jansen
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2017-10-17
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 022648758X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPoliticians and political parties are for the most part limited by habit—they recycle tried-and-true strategies, draw on models from the past, and mimic others in the present. But in rare moments politicians break with routine and try something new. Drawing on pragmatist theories of social action, Revolutionizing Repertoires sets out to examine what happens when the repertoire of practices available to political actors is dramatically reconfigured. Taking as his case study the development of a distinctively Latin American style of populist mobilization, Robert S. Jansen analyzes the Peruvian presidential election of 1931. He finds that, ultimately, populist mobilization emerged in the country at this time because newly empowered outsiders recognized the limitations of routine political practice and understood how to modify, transpose, invent, and recombine practices in a whole new way. Suggesting striking parallels to the recent populist turn in global politics, Revolutionizing Repertoires offers new insights not only to historians of Peru but also to scholars of historical sociology and comparative politics, and to anyone interested in the social and political origins of populism.
To Be a Worker
Author: Jorge Parodi
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2003-06-19
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 0807860905
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA contemporary classic in Peru, where it was first published in 1986, this book explores changes in the political identity and economic strategies of the Peruvian working class in the 1970s and 1980s. Jorge Parodi uses a case study of Metal Empresa, a large factory in Lima, to trace the surge and decline of the labor movement in Peru--and in Latin America more generally--through the successes and frustrations of the members of a once-powerful union as they coped with the nation's deteriorating economic situation. By the early 1970s, Metal Empresa was the site of one of the most radical and aggressive unions in Peruvian industry. But as the decade drew to a close, political and economic crises soured the environment for trade unionism and rendered unions less able to produce palpable benefits for their members. Through in-depth, often poignant interviews, including an extensive oral history of one of the workers, Jesus Zuniga, Parodi shows how workers desperate to support themselves and their families were increasingly forced to seek opportunities outside the industrial sector. In the process, he shows, they began to question their very identities as workers.
Politics in the Altiplano
Author: Edward Dew
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2014-11-06
Total Pages: 235
ISBN-13: 1477301526
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe department of Puno in southern Peru is an area oriented to livestock and agricultural production, peopled by an Indian peasant mass and a dominant minority of culturally Westernized mestizos. A small but growing hybrid group, the cholos, bridged the cultural gap and collaborated with dissident merchant elements within the mestizo group to challenge the economic, social, and political order of the altiplano (high plateau) system. Politics in the Altiplano analyzes the sources of conflict and political change in the plural society as it underwent socioeconomic development through a period of recurring natural disasters. In the period under study (1956–1966), a prolonged drought precipitated a series of crises. The mismanagement of American aid, sent to the suffering peasants, became a national cause célèbre. As migration to Peru’s coastal cities reached large-scale proportions, several peasant movements were launched in the department. To rechannel local discontent, an autonomous development corporation was created for Puno by the Peruvian Congress. This, plus the institution of local elections in 1963, provided ample opportunity for the coalition of dissident mestizos, cholos, and peasants to pursue their “revolutionary” goals. A rivalry between two major towns, Puno (the department’s capital) and Juliaca (the commercial center), furthered the conflict between conservative mestizos and the peasant-cholo movement. Juliaca’s attempt to secede from the department in November 1965 set off a series of violent strikes and counterstrikes in both cities. Intervention from the national level by government troops put an end to the crisis for the time being. But the continued need for land reform in the department, combined with institutionalized means for political participation, kept the peasants mobilized and the atmosphere of conflict alive.
Medicine and Politics in Colonial Peru
Author: Adam Warren (Ph.D.)
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 0822961113
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn original study focusing on the primacy placed on physicians and medical care to generate population growth and increase the workforce during the late eigteenth century in colonial Peru.
Livelihood and Resistance
Author: Gavin A. Smith
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780520063655
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLivelihood and Resistance examines a Peruvian highland community where rural resistance has been endemic for over a century. Gavin Smith explores the way in which the villagers' daily economic interests and their political struggles contribute to their social and political identity.
The Politics of Religion and the Rise of Social Catholicism in Peru (1884-1935)
Author: Ricardo Cubas Ramacciotti
Publisher: Religion in the Americas
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9789004355675
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 'The Politics of Religion and the Rise of Social Catholicism in Peru (1884-1935)' Ricardo Cubas Ramacciotti provides a lucid synthesis of the Catholic Church?s responses to the secularisation of the State and society whilst offering a fresh appraisal of the emergence of Social Catholicism and its contribution to social thought and development of civil society in post-independence Peru. Making use of diverse historical sources, Cubas provides a comprehensive view of a reformist yet anti-revolutionary trend within the Peruvian Church that, decades before the emergence of Liberation Theology and under divergent intellectual paradigms, developed an active agenda that addressed the new social problems of the country, including those of urban workers and of indigenous populations.
Searching for a Better Society
Author: John Sheahan
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2010-11-01
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780271043074
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs in most of the rest of Latin America, Peruvian economic strategy has gone in something of a circle, from long-established orientation toward an open economy with minimal state intervention to a period of state-led development, then back again to what looks like the starting point. In the 1960s, the Peruvian people had their first real chance to make a democratic choice between continuation of the country's open-economy orientation or change, & they chose change. Using this as his starting point, Sheahan explains how their choice was not provoked by any economic crisis but by other major influences. The majority of Peruvians, he shows, were seeking objectives more fundamental than economic growth. They were, with conflicting visions but with many good reasons, "searching for a better society." While positive accomplishments have been important, enough went wrong to lead Peru back to a more market-determined economic system in 1990. Sheahan addresses the consequences of this return to the earlier economic strategy & what might be done to shape the process of development-in Peru & in Latin America more generally-toward less unfair societies. Searching for a Better Society is different from the great majority of economic studies of developing countries in its emphasis on the basic role of social dissatisfaction with the country's traditional liberal economic system & on the complexity of social goals involved in evaluation of the choice & consequences of economic policies.
