...Dennis N. Valdés The 1936 citrus strike, the first large-scale strike in the industry, represented a turning point both for agricultural labor and for the villages. It further radicalized workers and brought down the wrath of growers. The third player, the Mexican consulate, intervened...

...Steve Ellner Labor Politics in Latin America: Democracy and Worker Organization in the Neoliberal Era . By Paul W. Posner , Viviana Patroni , and Jean François Mayer . Gainesville : University of Florida Press , 2018 . Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xviii...

...Allen Wells The World of the Mexican Worker in Texas . By Zamora Emilio . College Station : Texas A&M University Press , 1993 . Photographs. Tables. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index , xii , 285 pp. Cloth . $39.50 . Copyright 1995 by Duke University Press 1995...

...) and mechanisms for labor control (in the form of government-sponsored unions) that laid the groundwork for rapid industrialization with minimal social disruption. Though many students of the Vargas period characterize these reforms as ultimately benefiting the employers, not the workers, according to most...

..., the rich cotton-growing area of the Laguna region witnessed a spectacular mobilization of its agricultural labor force. More than twelve months of struggle by newly established unions of agricultural workers culminated in a general strike in August 1936 and a decision by the government of Lázaro Cárdenas...

... observers and Brazilian government officials noted that São Paulo’s mill owners reaped substantial profits during the war years. 17 Even the president of the state of São Paulo publicly declared that industrialists were unfairly profiting from workers labor. He wrote, “It is clear that industrialists...

...R.N.A Current Types of Peasant-Agricultural Worker Coalitions and Their Historical Development in Guatemala . By Snee Carole A. . Presentation by Wagley Charles . Cuernavaca, Mexico , 1969 . Centro Intercultural de Documentación . Cuaderno No. 13 . Tables and Graphs...

... pudieron reflexionar sobre su condición, escribir al respecto y así incidir en un cambio social que arropó al feminismo. Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 From Angel to Office Worker: Middle-Class Identity and Female Consciousness in Mexico, 1890–1950 . By Susie S. Porter...

... restaurants and whose Peruvian Chinese “chifa” food elites considered a source of disease and malnutrition (pp. 166, 173). Government restaurants were designed not just to undercut labor militancy and leftist support but also to “improve” workers by giving Lima's laboring poor a modern, hygienic...

...Elizabeth Quay Hutchison Abstract This article examines the unique history of household workers’ activism in Chile from the 1950s to the 1990 transition to democracy, drawing on archival and oral sources to argue that key alliances with the Catholic Church, Center and Left parties, and feminist...

...Brian Loveman Authoritarianism and Democratization: Soldiers and Workers in Argentina, 1976-1983 . By Munck Gerardo L. . University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press , 1998 . Tables. Figures. Appendixes. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index , xxxiii, 334 pp. Cloth...

...Michael J. Pisani Beautiful Flowers of the Maquiladora: Life Histories of Women Workers in Tijuana . By Prieto Norma Iglesias . Translated by Stone Michael with Winkler Gabrielle . Foreword by Selby Henry . Translations from Latin America Series . Austin : Institute...

.... It is scholarly without diminishing readability. It does have some negative aspects, however. Chomsky’s comparison of banana plantation workers’ lives with those of slaves on West Indian sugar plantations is a good idea in itself, but it is used so often that it appears to be a mere device to put the company...

...Susan K. Besse The Gendered Worlds of Latin American Women Workers: From Household and Factory to the Union Hall and Ballot Box . Edited by French John D. and James Daniel . Comparative and International Working-Class History . Durham : Duke University Press , 1997...

...Lesley Gill Victims of the Chilean Miracle: Workers and Neoliberalism in the Pinochet Era, 1973 – 2002 . Edited by Winn Peter . Foreword by Drake Paul . Durham : Duke University Press , 2004 . Map. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xvi , 423 pp. Cloth , $89.95 . Paper...

...María Inés Tato Los Artistas del Pueblo: Prints and Worker’s Culture in Buenos Aires, 1917 – 1935 . By Frank Patrick . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 2006 . Photographs. Illustrations. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index . ix , 312 pp. Cloth , $50.00...

...Katherine E. Bliss Workers, Neighbors, and Citizens: The Revolution in Mexico City . By Lear John . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2001 . Plates. Maps. Table. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xii , 441 pp. Cloth , $60.00 . Paper , $29.95 . Copyright 2002 by Duke...

...-1970s, testing the notion that the workers were an elite. He found that although auto workers earned more, they suffered many disadvantages, such as job instability and strict discipline. He dismissed the labor elite theory. Then he returned several years later to look into the strikes. He described...