Workers' Control in Latin America Book

Contents

Preface Introduction. What Is Workers' Control? / Jonathan C. Brown
1. To Relieve the Misery: Sugar Mill Workers and the 1933 Cuban Revolution / Michael Marconi Braga
2. Acting for Themselves: Workers and the Mexican Oil Nationalization / Jonathan C. Brown
3. Rehabilitating the Workers: The U.S. Railway Mission to Mexico / Andrea Spears
4. Maintaining Unity: Railway Workers and the Guatemalan Revolution / Marc Christian McLeod
5. As You Sow, So Shall You Reap: Argentine Labor and the Railway Nationalization / María Celina Tuozzo
6. Topics Not Suitable for Propaganda: Working-Class Resistance under Peronism / Michael Snodgrass
7. There Should Be Dignity: São Paulo's Women Textile Workers and the "Strike of 300,000" / Joel Wolfe
8. Struggling for Emancipation: Tungsten Miners and the Bolivian Revolution / Andrew Boeger
9. Continuing to Be Peasants: Union Militancy among Peruvian Miners / Josh DeWind
10. Defending the Nation's Interest: Chilean Miners and the Copper Nationalization / Joanna Swanger Conclusion. Workers' Control in Latin America / Jonathan C. Brown Selective Bibliography of Twentieth-Century Latin American Labor History Notes on the Contributors Index

Illustrations Plowing a field for sugarcane in Cuba, 1928
Mexican workers drilling an oil well, 1938
Mexican workers cleaning up following a train wreck, 1946
A Mexican engine crew on the National Railways, ca. 1946
Guatemalan railway workers on strike, 1951
Argentine railway workers, ca. 1948
Striking Argentine workers, 1951
Middle-class opponents celebrating the fall of Perón, 1955
Miners sharing coca and camaraderie underground at the Chojlla mine, 1992
Peruvian miners' poster calling for nationalization of American mines, 1971
Chilean workers refining copper at the El Teniente mine, 1964

Maps
1. The Rionda Company sugar mills in Cuba, 1933
2. The oil fields and railways of Mexico, 1940
3. The railways and ports of Guatemala, 1952
4. Major railways of Argentina, 1948
5. São Paulo state, Brazil, 1953
6. The Chojlla Tungsten Mine of Bolivia, 1952
7. The Cerro de Pasco Mining Corporation of Peru, 1968
8. The copper mines of Chile, 1970

Figures
1. Labor Strikes in Mexico, 1930-1979
2. Labor Strikes in Argentina, 1930-1979
3. Labor Strikes in Brazil and Chile, 1930-1979
4. Value of Cuban Sugar Harvest, 1915-1938