Worlds of labour in Latin America / edited by Paola Revilla Orías, Paulo Cruz Terra, and Christian G. De Vito.

"This book reflects the development of Latin American labour history across broad geographical, chronological and thematic perspectives, which seek to review and revisit key concepts at different levels. The contributions are closely linked to the most recent trends in Global Labour History and in t...

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Uniform Title:Work in global and historical perspective ; v. 13.
Other Authors: Revilla Orías, Paola (Editor)
Terra, Paulo Cruz (Editor)
De Vito, Christian G. (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, [2022]
Series:Work in global and historical perspective ; v. 13.
Subjects:
Labor > Latin America > History.
Industrial relations > Latin America.
Travail > Amérique latine > Histoire.
Relations industrielles > Amérique latine.
Labor.
Latin America.
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:viii, 267 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Worlds of labour in Latin America : an introduction / Paola Revilla Orías, Paulo Cruz Terra, and Christian G. De Vito
  • A diverse world : a panoramic view of colonial mine labourers based on case studies from the viceroyalties of New Spain and Peru / Paula C. Zagalsky, Isabel M. Povea Moreno
  • Forced labour as a "public good"? Voices and actions in Potosí (17th to 18th centuries) / Rossana Barragán R.
  • Learning together : Indians, free blacks and slaves in Lima's colonial workshops / Francisco Quiroz
  • Yanaconas, colonos and arrenderos : contradictions between the law and practice in rural labour in 19th and 20th century Bolivia / María Luisa Soux
  • A credible history of the Princess of Bourbon : labour, gender, and sexuality in South America, 1905-1919 / Cristiana Schettini, Diego Galeano
  • Towards a history of the ILO and Latin America : perspectives, problems and collaborative work / Laura Caruso, Andrés Stagnaro
  • Discussions on forced labour : Brazil and Argentina in dialogue with the ILO / Norberto O. Ferreras
  • Oil workers in the enclave of the Tropical Oil Company : composition, culture and resistance (1920-1948) / Renán Vega Cantor, Luz Ángela Núñez Espinel
  • Dictatorships, workers and trade-unions in the second half of the 20th century : dialogue and connections among the cases of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay / Victoria Basualdo
  • Precarious society in Chile. The 'tragedy' of the 33 miners / Dasten Julián-Vejar.