Worlds of Labour in Latin America (Work in Global and Historical Perspective)

This book reflects the development of Latin American labour history across broad geographical, chronological and thematic perspectives, which seek to review and revisit key concepts at different levels. The contributions are closely linked to the most recent trends in Global Labour History and in turn, they enrich those trends. Here, authors from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico, Peru and Spain take a historical and sociological perspective and analyse a series of problems relating to labour relations. The chapters weave together different periods of Latin American colonial and republican history from the vice-royalties of New Spain (now Mexico) and Peru, the Royal __Audiencia de Charcas__ (now Bolivia), Argentina and Uruguay (former vice-royalty of Río de La Plata) and Chile (former __Capitanía General__). Table of Contents Worlds of Labour in Latin America: An introduction A diverse world: A panoramic view of colonial mine labourers based on case studies from the viceroyalties of New Spain and Peru Forced labour as a “public good”? Voices and actions in Potosí (17th to 18th centuries) Learning together: Indians, free blacks and slaves in Lima’s colonial workshops Yanaconas, colonos and arrenderos: Contradictions between the law and practice in rural labour in 19th and 20th century Bolivia A credible history of the Princess of Bourbon: Labour, gender, and sexuality in South America, 1905–1919 Towards a history of the ILO and Latin America: Perspectives, problems and collaborative work Discussions on forced labour: Brazil and Argentina in dialogue with the ILO Oil workers in the enclave of the Tropical Oil Company: Composition, culture and resistance (1920–1948) Dictatorships, workers and trade-unions in the second half of the 20th century: Dialogue and connections among the cases of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay Precarious society in Chile. The ‘tragedy’ of the 33 miners "This book reflects the development of Latin American labour history across broad geographical, chronological and thematic perspectives, which seek to review and revisit key concepts at different levels. The contributions are closely linked to the most recent trends in Global Labour History and in turn, they enrich those trends. Here, authors from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico, Peru and Spain take a historical and sociological perspective and analyse a series of problems relating to labour relations. The chapters weave together different periods of Latin American colonial and republican history from the vice-royalties of New Spain (now Mexico) and Peru, the Royal Audiencia de Charcas (now Bolivia), Argentina and Uruguay (former vice-royalty of Río de La Plata) and Chile (former Capitanía General)." -- Provided by publisher This series will trace at the example of work the historical connections between regions and critically engage with the idea of the North Atlantic World as normal and the rest as exceptional. The aim is to publish studies that change focus back and forth from the intimacy and complexity of relationships in specific places and their connections to distant places and long-term processes of change thereby looking beyond locality and region