The Labor of Extraction in Latin America

Herausgeber: Ciupa, Kristin; Webber, Jeffery R.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Natural resource extraction and primary commodity export remain persistent features of the Latin American economy. This book investigates the power of labor in extractive sectors starting in the 1980s. It shows how labor shapes national export sectors, economies, politics, and societies more broadly, and resists extractivism through organizing.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 410g
• ISBN-13: 9781538187555
• ISBN-10: 1538187558
• Artikelnr.: 69080938

Autorenporträt

Edited by Kristin Ciupa and Jeffery R. Webber

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
PART ONE - THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
Chapter One - Introduction: The Labor of Extraction in Latin America
Kristin Ciupa and Jeffery R. Webber
PART TWO - REVISITING THE CLASSICAL CASES
Chapter Two - The Political Economy of the Labor Movement in Contemporary
Argentina
Ruth Felder and Viviana Patroni
Chapter Three - Oil and the Dualization of Venezuela's Labor Movement
Kristin Ciupa
Chapter Four - A Labor History of Extractivism in Colombia: From Coffee to
Coca and Beyond
Phillip A. Hough
Chapter Five - Reading Peru from Chile: Examining Mining Unionism in the
Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
Omar Manky
Chapter Six - Capital Accumulation and the Forms and Potentialities of the
Labor Movement in Latin America: Critical Reflections on Argentina and
Chile
Guido Starosta and Fernando Javier Cazón
PART THREE - EXTENDING THE FRAMEWORK
Chapter Seven - Labor/Nature in (Late) Capitalist Mexico
Aleida Hernández Cervantes and Anna Zalik
Chapter Eight - From Sindicalismo to Cooperativismo: The Atomization of the
Bolivian Miners' Movement
Andrea Marston
Chapter Nine - Migrant Labor as Extraction
Christopher Little
PART FOUR - CONCLUSION
Chapter Ten - Conclusion and New Directions
Jeffery R. Webber