To Be a Worker - Identity and Politics in Peru

Informationen zum Autor Jorge Parodi is former director of the Centro de Estudios de Democracia y Sociedad. He now practices psychoanalysis in Lima, Peru. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung An exploration of changes in the political identity and economic strategies of Peru's working class in the 1970s and 80s. It uses a case study of Metal Empresa! a large factory in Lima! to trace the rise and fall of the labour movement through the successes and frustrations of its union members.

Product details

• Authors: Jorge Parodi, Jorge/ Alstrum Parodi Solari
• Assisted by: Catherine Conaghan (Editor), Catherine M. Conaghan (Editor), James Alstrum (Translation)
• Publisher: University Of North Carolina
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.2000
• EAN: 9780807848609
• ISBN: 978-0-8078-4860-9
• No. of pages: 177
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 235 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Latin America in Translation/E; Latin America in translation/En Traduccion/Em Traducao; Latin America in Translation/E
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education