... base of support in the early years of the twenty-first century. Pink Tide leaders who came to power in Argentina and Venezuela, as Patroni and Posner discuss in their respective chapters, prioritized the marginalized workers of the informal economy and were less generous to, and more distanced from...

... Anarquista “Os Sem Pátria” met in the Largo da Sé (now Praça da Sé) to denounce the European “hemorrhage of blood promoted by capitalism.” In the midst of this denunciation of the war, workers in the crowd stood up and demanded that the speakers address their problems. They wanted to know what anarchist...

...) 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...

...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...

...Barry Carr This same logic has also been noted in other historical and geographical contexts. In the first two years of the Cuban Revolution (1959-60), highly proletarianized sugar cane workers combined demands for improvements in wages and living conditions with petitions for land grants...

...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...

...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...

...Julia Tuñón From Angel to Office Worker: Middle-Class Identity and Female Consciousness in Mexico, 1890–1950 . By Susie S. Porter The Mexican Experience . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2018 . Photographs. Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xvi, 351 pp. Paper...

...Pablo Vila The Argentine Folklore Movement: Sugar Elites, Criollo Workers, and the Politics of Cultural Nationalism, 1900–1955 . By Chamosa Oscar . Tucson : University of Arizona Press , 2010 . Photographs. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index . 271 pp. Cloth . Copyright 2012...

...Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt Workers’ Control in Latin America, 1930-1979 . Edited by Brown Jonathan C. . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 1997 . Photographs. Illustration. Maps. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xiv , 328 pp. Cloth, $49.95 . Paper, $19.95...

... was a “miracle” with the question: “a miracle for whom — and at what cost?” (p. 12). Given the poor results of neoliberal democracy for Chilean workers, readers of this volume might also ask what hope there is for working people in Iraq, where the U.S. is currently struggling to erect another neoliberal...

...Kenneth F. Maffitt Deference and Defiance in Monterrey: Workers, Paternalism, and Revolution in Mexico, 1890–1950 . By Snodgrass Michael . Cambridge Latin American Studies, no. 88 . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2003 . Notes. Bibliography. Index . xii , 321 pp. Cloth...

...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...

...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...

...Douglas W. Trefzger The Time of Freedom: Campesino Workers in Guatemala’s October Revolution . By Forster Cindy . Pitt Latin American Studies . Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press , 2001 . Photographs. Maps. Tables. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xiii , 287 pp...

...Mark D. Szuchman Workers or Citizens: Democracy and Identity in Rosario, Argentina (1912–1930) . By Karush Matthew B. . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 2002 . Illustration. Map. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index . viii , 264 pp. Cloth , $49.95 . Copyright...

...Steven J. Bachelor Revolution in the Street: Women, Workers, and Urban Protest in Veracruz, 1870–1927 . By Wood Andrew Grant . Latin American Silhouettes. Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources , 2001 . Photographs. Illustrations. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xxiii , 239 pp...

... heirs of Getúlio Vargas, now grouped primarily in the PDT, the party led by Leonel Brizola. Since its founding in 1979, the Brazilian Workers Party ( Partido dos Trabajadores) has been consistently underestimated by its opponents and critics. Starting primarily as an offshoot of the São Paulo labor...