| Contested Communities: Class, Gender, and Politics in Chile's El Teniente Copper Mine, 1904-1951 Contributor(s): Klubock, Thomas Miller (Author) |
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ISBN: 0822320924 ISBN-13: 9780822320920 Publisher: Duke University Press OUR PRICE: $29.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 1998 Annotation: "Combining the explanatory power of theory with rich, evocative narrative, Klubock sets a new standard for the treatment of gender relations and politics in Latin American labor history."--Gil Joseph, Yale University "Revealing a defining moment of modern Chilean history, "Contested Communities" is a crucially important work. First-rate, fascinating labor history. . . remarkable for its boldness and originality."--Jeffrey L. Gould, Indiana University |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Latin America - South America - Social Science | Sociology - General - Political Science | Labor & Industrial Relations |
| Dewey: 331.762 |
| LCCN: 97039535 |
| Lexile Measure: 1700 |
| Series: Comparative & International Working-Class History |
| Physical Information: 1.11" H x 5.97" W x 9.15" (1.47 lbs) 392 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Cultural Region - Latin America - Ethnic Orientation - Hispanic - Ethnic Orientation - Latino |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In Contested Communities Thomas Miller Klubock analyzes the experiences of the El Teniente copper miners during the first fifty years of the twentieth century. Describing the everyday life and culture of the mining community, its impact on Chilean politics and national events, and the sense of self and identity working-class men and women developed in the foreign-owned enclave, Klubock provides important insights into the cultural and social history of Chile. Klubock shows how a militant working-class community was established through the interplay between capitalist development, state formation, and the ideologies of gender. In describing how the North American copper company attempted to reconfigure and reform the work and social-cultural lives of men and women who migrated to the mine, Klubock demonstrates how struggles between labor and capital took place on a gendered field of power and reconstituted social constructions of masculinity and femininity. As a result, Contested Communities describes more accurately than any previous study the nature of grassroots labor militancy, working-class culture, and everyday politics of gender relations during crucial years of the Chilean Popular Front in the 1930s and 1940s. |