This valuable collection results from a conference held in La Paz in 2017. The objective was to extend labor studies on Latin America beyond the industrial, urban, male wage workers who have been the primary object of the region's labor history and who are effectively absent from this volume. It should also be noted that the collection's title is a little misleading, since almost all the studies address South America. Mexico is represented by part of an essay on colonial silver mining in Guanajuato and Potosí; Central America and the Caribbean do not appear at all.
Within these limits, the 17 essays, which range from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century, deal with a wide variety of subjects and treat all the countries of the continent except Venezuela. They are organized in five sections, respectively addressing gender, historiography, work and coercion, conflicts and struggles, and informal and precarious work. The...
