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Book Artesanos Y Obreros Costarricenses

Download or read book Artesanos Y Obreros Costarricenses written by Mario Oliva Medina and published by EUNED. This book was released on 2006 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics

Download or read book Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1020 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Proletarians of the North

Download or read book Proletarians of the North written by Zaragosa Vargas and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1999-03-02 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the end of World War I and the Great Depression, over 58,000 Mexicans journeyed to the Midwest in search of employment. Many found work in agriculture, but thousands more joined the growing ranks of the industrial proletariat. Relating the experiences of Mexicans in the workplace and neighborhood, and showing the roles of Mexican women, the Catholic Church, and labor unions, Vargas enriches our knowledge of immigrant urban life.--Publisher's description.

Book Forging a Community

    Book Details:
  • Author : James B. Lane
  • Publisher : Indiana University Press
  • Release : 1987
  • ISBN : 9780253212139
  • Pages : 324 pages

Download or read book Forging a Community written by James B. Lane and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Forging a Community, editors Escobar and Lane present an excellent overview of this comparatively neglected Latino settlement. The selections are quite readable and well-balanced." —Lance Trusty, Purdue University Calumet, The Old Northwest

Book I Sweat the Flavor of Tin

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert L. Smale
  • Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
  • Release : 2010-09-26
  • ISBN : 0822973901
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book I Sweat the Flavor of Tin written by Robert L. Smale and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2010-09-26 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On June 4, 1923, the Bolivian military turned a machine gun on striking miners in the northern Potosi town of Uncia. The incident is remembered as Bolivia's first massacre of industrial workers. The violence in Uncia highlights a formative period in the development of a working class who would eventually challenge the oligarchic control of the nation. Robert L. Smale begins his study as Bolivia's mining industry transitioned from silver to tin; specifically focusing on the region of Oruro and northern Potosi. The miners were part of a heterogeneous urban class alongside artisans, small merchants, and other laborers. Artisan mutual aid societies provided miners their first organizational models and the guidance to emancipate themselves from the mine owners' political tutelage. During the 1910s both the Workers' Labor Federation and the Socialist Party appeared in Oruro to spur more aggressive political action. In 1920 miners won a comprehensive contract that exceeded labor legislation debated in Congress in the years that followed. Relations between the working class and the government deteriorated soon after, leading to the 1923 massacre in Uncia. Smale ends his study with the onset of the Great Depression and premonitions of war with Paraguay—twin cataclysms that would discredit the old oligarchic order and open new horizons to the labor movement. This period's developments marked the entry of workers and other marginalized groups into Bolivian politics and the acquisition of new freedoms and basic rights. These events prefigure the rise of Evo Morales—a union activist born in Oruro—in the early twenty-first century.

Book A Holy Alliance

Download or read book A Holy Alliance written by Eugene D. Miller and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 1996 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the revolutionary movement in Central America during this century, Costa Rica followed a very different course from other countries in the region. This text explores the history of labour and the relationship between the Communist Party and the Catholic Church during the 1930s and 1940s.

Book Las Derechas

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sandra McGee Deutsch
  • Publisher : Stanford University Press
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN : 9780804745994
  • Pages : 516 pages

Download or read book Las Derechas written by Sandra McGee Deutsch and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book explicitly to compare extreme right-wing organizations, ideas, and actions in different national settings in Latin America. It shows how extreme rightist class and gender composition, motives, programs, and activities varied over time and between countries. It concludes by demonstrating the importance of the analysis for understanding present conditions.

Book A Holy Alliance

Download or read book A Holy Alliance written by David Y Miller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the revolutionary movement in Central America during this century, Costa Rica followed a very different course from other countries in the region. This text explores the history of labour and the relationship between the Communist Party and the Catholic Church during the 1930s and 1940s.

Book Religion  Society  and Culture in Colombia

Download or read book Religion Society and Culture in Colombia written by Patricia Londoño-Vega and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2002-04-11 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first detailed scholarly study of culture and sociability in Colombia during the period c. 1850 and 1930. Patricia Londoño-Vega gives a vivid picture of some of the factors that reduced social distances in the province of Antioquia during this period of relative harmony and prosperity. She examines hundreds of the groups and voluntary associations which flourished at this time and which brought a growing number of Antioqueños of different social backgrounds together around religious practices and societies, the exercising of charity, a concern for education, and the pursuit of cultural progress. The book describes the crucial role played by religion and the Catholic Church, which underwent considerable growth after the turbulent period of mid-nineteenth century liberal reforms until the end of the conservative era in 1930, and traces the progress of parishes, devotional associations, religious communities, private and public religiosity, and numeros pilanthropic societies, all of which brought about the bonds between the classes. The author examines achievements in education and the emergence of a thriving gamut of literary groups, public libraries, social clubs, and other assciations created to promote public instuction, pedagogy, manners, temperance, 'cultivated' music, and moral improvement. These cultural associations strove towards the longed-for civilisation, as percieved in its prevalent Western connotations. The social intermingling brought about by all these forms of sociability did not of course abolish class distinctions, but did generate a complex and closely integrated society, with an optimistic and constructive view of itself. The description of social and cultural dynamism, set against the background of growing religiiosity, challenges the seldom-discussed assumption that religion slowed down social and cultural modernisation. Primary evidence, drawn from extensive researh in proceedings and reports by groups, associations, periodical publications, statistics, diaries and memoirs, travellers' accounts, books of etiquette, genre literature and other contemporary publications, as well as visual images, particulary photographs, document important topics which have in the past attracted little attention from scholars.

Book Threatening Others

    Book Details:
  • Author : Carlos Sandoval-Garcia
  • Publisher : Ohio University Press
  • Release : 2014-08-27
  • ISBN : 0896804437
  • Pages : 265 pages

Download or read book Threatening Others written by Carlos Sandoval-Garcia and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-27 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the last two decades, a decline in public investment has undermined some of the national values and institutions of Costa Rica. The resulting sense of dislocation and loss is usually projected onto Nicaraguan “immigrants.” Threatening Others: Nicaraguans and the Formation of National Identities in Costa Rica explores the representation of the Nicaraguan “other” in the Costa Rican imagery. It also seeks to address more generally why the sense of national belonging constitutes a crucial identification in contemporary societies. Interdisciplinary and based on extensive fieldwork, it looks critically at the “exceptionalism” that Costa Ricans take for granted and view as a part of their national identity. Carlos Sandoval-García argues that Nicaraguan immigrants, once perceived as a “communist threat,” are now victims of an invigorated, racialized politics in which the Nicaraguan nationality has become an offense in itself. Threatening Others is a deeply searching book that will interest scholars and students in Latin American studies and politics, cultural studies, and ethnic studies.

Book A History of Organized Labor in Panama and Central America

Download or read book A History of Organized Labor in Panama and Central America written by Robert J. Alexander and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-07-30 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a pioneering study of the history of organized labor in the Central American republics. It traces the history in the various countries from the early nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth century. It also discusses why they appeared, what organizational and ideological tendencies characterized the movement in these countries, the role of collective bargaining, the economic influence of organized labor, as well as the relations of the movement in the individual countries with one another and with the broader labor movement outside of the countries involved in this volume.

Book Mexican Labor in the United States

Download or read book Mexican Labor in the United States written by Paul Schuster Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Publication

Download or read book Publication written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Identity and Struggle at the Margins of the Nation state

Download or read book Identity and Struggle at the Margins of the Nation state written by Aviva Chomsky and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A social history of Central America and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean that illustrates the importance of workers' actions in shaping national history.

Book University of California Publications in Economics

Download or read book University of California Publications in Economics written by University of California (1868-1952) and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mexicans in the Midwest  1900 1932

Download or read book Mexicans in the Midwest 1900 1932 written by Juan R. García and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1996-12-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early in this century, a few Mexican migrants began streaming northward into the Midwest, but by 1914--in response to the war in Europe and a booming U.S. economy--the stream had become a flood. Barely a generation later, this so-called Immigrant Generation of Mexicans was displaced and returned to the U.S. Southwest or to Mexico. Drawing on both published works and archival materials, this new study considers the many factors that affected the process of immigration as well as the development of communities in the region. These include the internal forces of religion, ethnic identity, and a sense of nationalism, as well as external influences such as economic factors, discrimination, and the vagaries of U.S.-Mexico relations. Here is a book that persuasively challenges many prevailing assumptions about Mexican people and the communities they established in the Midwest. The author notes the commonalities and differences between Mexicans in that region and their compadres who settled elsewhere. He further demonstrates that although Mexicans in the Midwest maintained a strong sense of cultural identity, they were quick to adopt the consumer culture and other elements of U.S. life that met their needs. Focusing on a people, place, and time rarely covered before now, this wide-ranging work will be welcomed by scholars and students of history, sociology, and Chicano studies. General readers interested in ethnic issues and the multicultural fabric of American society will find here a window to the past as well as new perspectives for understanding the present and the future.