| To Be a Worker: Identity and Politics in Peru Contributor(s): Parodi, Jorge (Author), Conaghan, Catherine (Editor), Alstrum, James (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0807848603 ISBN-13: 9780807848609 Publisher: University of North Carolina Press OUR PRICE: $40.38 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2000 Annotation: A contemporary classic in Peru, this 1986 book is now available in English. It explores changes in the political identity and economic strategies of the Peruvian working class in the 1970s and 1980s. Jorge Parodi uses a case study of Metal Empresa, a large Lima factory, to trace the surge and decline of the labor movement in Peru--and in Latin America. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Labor & Industrial Relations - Business & Economics | Economic History - History | Latin America - General |
| Dewey: 331.767 |
| LCCN: 99049579 |
| Series: Latin America in Translation/En Traducción/Em Tradução |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.78" W x 9.25" (0.61 lbs) 200 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1970's - Chronological Period - 1980's - Cultural Region - Latin America |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A contemporary classic in Peru, where it was first published in 1986, this book explores changes in the political identity and economic strategies of the Peruvian working class in the 1970s and 1980s. Jorge Parodi uses a case study of Metal Empresa, a large factory in Lima, to trace the surge and decline of the labor movement in Peru--and in Latin America more generally--through the successes and frustrations of the members of a once-powerful union as they coped with the nation's deteriorating economic situation. By the early 1970s, Metal Empresa was the site of one of the most radical and aggressive unions in Peruvian industry. But as the decade drew to a close, political and economic crises soured the environment for trade unionism and rendered unions less able to produce palpable benefits for their members. Through in-depth, often poignant interviews, including an extensive oral history of one of the workers, Jesus Zuniga, Parodi shows how workers desperate to support themselves and their families were increasingly forced to seek opportunities outside the industrial sector. In the process, he shows, they began to question their very identities as workers. |
Contributor Bio(s): Parodi, Jorge: - Jorge Parodi is former director of the Centro de Estudios de Democracia y Sociedad. He now practices psychoanalysis in Lima, Peru. |