...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...

... 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...

...) 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...

... 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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

... 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...

... was greeted by a huge, enthusiastic crowd, many of whom were workers from the factories and shops of that important industrial city. 1 In his speech he alluded to the tragic events which had taken place over three years before at the nearby textile village of Río Blanco, saying that in a democracy...

... (and not infrequently distorted). All that we are presented is a picture of the advanced forms, i.e., workers’ councils. Notions of workers’ “instincts” and “spontaneity” hardly explain social behavior. More to the point is the fact that Socialist and Communist workers applied ideas learned from, but not always...

...Dale Johnson Economic Democracy: Workers’ Participation in Chilean Industry, 1970-1973 . By Espinosa Juan G. and Zimbalist Andrew S. . Foreword by Vanek Jaroslav . New York , 1978 . Academic Press . Tables. Figures. Graphs. Glossary. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xix...

... 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...

...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...

...Oscar Chamosa Workers Go Shopping in Argentina: The Rise of Popular Consumer Culture . By Milanesio Natalia . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 2013 . Photographs. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xi, 307 pp. Cloth , $55.00 . Copyright 2013 by Duke...

...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...

...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...