Linked Labor Histories - New England, Colombia, and the Making of a Global Working Class

Informationen zum Autor Aviva Chomsky is Professor of History and Coordinator of Latin American Studies at Salem State College in Salem, Massachusetts. She is the author of “They Take Our Jobs!”: And 20 Other Myths about Immigration and West Indian Workers and the United Fruit Company in Costa Rica, 1870–1940; editor of The People behind Colombian Coal; and a coeditor of The Cuba Reader and Identity and Struggle at the Margins of the Nation-State, both also published by Duke University Press. Klappentext Moves beyond comparative history to study the complex interweaving of transnational historical flows (material, cultural, and ideological) that have shaped two regions: New England and northern Colombia. Zusammenfassung An analysis of migration! labor-management collaboration! and the mobility of capital based on case studies in New England and Colombia. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments vii Abbreviations ix Introduction 1 Part I. New England 1. The Draper Company: From Hopedale to Medellín and Back 15 2. The Naumkeag Steam Cotton Company: Labor-Management Collaboration and Its Discontents 48 3. Guns, Butter, and the New (Old) International Division of Labor 93 4. Invisible Workers in a Dying Industry: Latino Immigrants in New England Textile Towns 142 Part II. Colombia 5. The Cutting Edge of Globalization: Neoliberalism and Violence in Colombia's Banana Zone 181 6. Taking Care of Business in Colombia: U.S. Multinationals, the U.S. Government, and the AFL-CIO 222 7. Mining the Connections: Where Does Your Coal Come From? 264 Conclusion 294 Notes 305 Bibliography 357 Index 373

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Aviva Chomsky, Chomsky, Aviva Chomsky
• Editore: Duke University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 01.04.2008
• EAN: 9780822341734
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-4173-4
• Pagine: 416
• Dimensioni: 165 mm x 235 mm x 32 mm
• Serie: American Encounters/Global Interactions; American Encounters/Global Int; American Encounters/Global Interactions; American Encounters/Global Int
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Storia della cultura; Sozialtheorie