Labor of Extraction in Latin America

Natural resource extraction and primary commodity export remain persistent features of the Latin American economy. This book investigates the power of labor in extractive sectors starting in the 1980s. It shows how labor shapes national export sectors, economies, politics, and societies more broadly, and resists extractivism through organizing.

List of contents

Table of Contents

PART ONE - THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
Chapter One - Introduction: The Labor of Extraction in Latin America
Kristin Ciupa and Jeffery R. Webber
PART TWO - REVISITING THE CLASSICAL CASES
Chapter Two - The Political Economy of the Labor Movement in Contemporary Argentina
Ruth Felder and Viviana Patroni
Chapter Three - Oil and the Dualization of Venezuela's Labor Movement
Kristin Ciupa
Chapter Four - A Labor History of Extractivism in Colombia: From Coffee to Coca and Beyond
Phillip A. Hough
Chapter Five - Reading Peru from Chile: Examining Mining Unionism in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
Omar Manky
Chapter Six - Capital Accumulation and the Forms and Potentialities of the Labor Movement in Latin America: Critical Reflections on Argentina and Chile
Guido Starosta and Fernando Javier Cazón
PART THREE - EXTENDING THE FRAMEWORK
Chapter Seven - Labor/Nature in (Late) Capitalist Mexico
Aleida Hernández Cervantes and Anna Zalik
Chapter Eight - From Sindicalismo to Cooperativismo: The Atomization of the Bolivian Miners' Movement
Andrea Marston
Chapter Nine - Migrant Labor as Extraction
Christopher Little
PART FOUR - CONCLUSION
Chapter Ten - Conclusion and New Directions
Jeffery R. Webber

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Edited by Kristin Ciupa and Jeffery R. Webber

Product details

• Authors: Kristin Webber Ciupa
• Assisted by: Kristin Ciupa (Editor), Jeffery Webber (Editor), Jeffery R Webber (Editor), Jeffery R. Webber (Editor), Webber Jeffery R. (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.2024
• EAN: 9781538187555
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-8755-5
• No. of pages: 268
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Latin America, Industrial relations, health & safety, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Caribbean & Latin American, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development, Caribbean islands, Labour / income economics, Politics & government, Labour Economics, Development economics & emerging economies, Latin America - Mexico, Central America, South America, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General, Industrial relations, occupational health & safety