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Identity and Struggle at the Margins of the Nati – The Laboring Peoples of Central America and the Hispanic Caribbean: Comparative and International Working-Class History

Autor Aviva Chomsky, Aldo A. Lauria–santiago
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 aug 1998
Brings together research on the social history of Central America and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822322184
ISBN-10: 0822322188
Pagini: 416
Dimensiuni: 150 x 250 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.69 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: MD – Duke University Press
Seria Comparative and International Working-Class History


Recenzii

"This is an important volume in Latin American labour history, which makes a welcome disciplinary contribution with its emphasis on ethnicity within labour dynamics and class formation."--British Bulletin of Publications on Latin America, April 2000 " ... a worthy mix of solid scholarship and first-rate editing... the decisive difference this book makes is in its attention to ethnicity, gender and race in relation to labour power, and the stripping away of the inclusive social categories often used by politicians and intellectuals. Though the 'State' figures importantly in nearly all of the essays, in analysis it often dissolves into contending factions like 'Indians', 'Negroes', or 'peasants', which must first be deconstructed in order to be understood at all. How racism, gender bias, chauvinism and ethnic hatred successfully transcend class differences at certain critical historical junctures is what much of the book is about. At the outset we are told that this is a volume of social history, and, indeed the essays are rarely concerned with the wholly contemporary. They add to our understanding of how labels may conceal or oversimplify history. They build fruitfully on the anthropological and historical insights of a different era, as much as they indict simplifiers and obstructions of the past." -- TLS, 27 August, 1999 "This volume does an exceptional job of bringing together in a single volume very substantial new research on working people and their history in the Hispanic Caribbean basin." Ralph Lee Wood Jr, Tulane University "This collection gives us a much more nuanced view of labour in these regions than previously available. Using archives and oral history, the writers successfully break through the screen of elite-centred history into the world of the masses." David McCrery, Georgia State University

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"This volume does an exceptional job of bringing together in a single volume very substantial new research on working people and their history in the Hispanic Caribbean Basin."--Ralph Lee Woodward Jr., Tulane University

Cuprins

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: Identity and Struggle in the History of the Hispanic Caribbean and Central America / Aldo Lauria-Santiago and Aviva Chomsky 1
Central America
"That a Poor Man Be Industrious": Coffee, Community, and Agrarian Capitalism in the Transformation of El Salvador's Ladino Peasantry, 1850–1900 / Aldo Lauria-Santiago 25
"Vana Ilusión": The Highlands Indians and the Myth of Nicaragua Mestiza, 1880–1925 / Jeffrey L. Gould 52
At Their Own Risk / Coffee Farmers and Debt in Nicaragua, 1870–1930 / Julia A. Charlip 94
Auxiliary Forces in the Shaping of the Repressive System: El Salvador, 1880–1930 / Patricia Alvarenga 122
The Banana Enclave, Nationalism, and mestizaje in Honduras, 1910s–1930s / Darío A. Euraque 151
Laborers and Smallholders in Costa Rica's Mining Communities, 1900–1940 / Aviva Chomsky 169
Reforging National Revolution: Campesino Labor Struggles in Guatemala, 1944–1954 / Cindy Forster 196
The Hispanic Caribbean
Free Love and Domesticity: Sexuality and the Shaping of Working-Class Feminism in Puerto Rico, 1900–1917 / Eileen J. Findlay 229
"Omnipotent and Omnipresent"? Labor Shortages, Worker Mobility, and Employer Control in the Cuban Sugar Industry, 1910–1934 / Barry Carr 260
The Foundations of Despotism: Agrarian Reform, Rural Transformation, and Peasant-State Compromise in Trujillo's Dominican Republic, 1930–1944 / Richard L. Turits 292
Conclusion: Imagining the Future of the Subaltern Past—Fragments of Race, Class, and Gender in Central America and the Hispanic Caribbean, 1850–1950 / Lowell Gudmundson and Francisco A. Scarano 335
Selected Bibliography 365
Index 385
Contributors 403