Mining for the Nation - The Politics of Chile's Coal Communities from the Popular Front to the Cold War

About the author

Jody Pavilack is Associate Professor of History at the University of Montana.

Summary

Examines the politics of coal miners in Chile during the 1930s and '40s, when they supported the Communist Party in a project of cross-class alliances aimed at defeating fascism, promoting national development, and deepening Chilean democracy.

Product details

• Authors: Jody (Assistant Professor Pavilack, Pavilack Jody
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.07.2012
• EAN: 9780271037707
• ISBN: 978-0-271-03770-7
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 29 mm
• Weight: 612 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss, Karten
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Business administration; South America, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, Industrial relations, health & safety, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Latin America / South America, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations, Political structures: democracy, History of the Americas, Marxism & Communism, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General