Winn Victims of the Chilean Miracle

Workers and Neoliberalism in the Pinochet Era, 1973–2002
1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8585-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 448 Seiten

An attempt to gauge the impact of Chile's neoliberal reform policies and of the Chilean "economic miracle" on various groups of workers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Winn, Peter

Weitere Mitwirkende

Drake, Paul W.

Frank, Volker K.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Gewerkschaften, Industrielle Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Index 411

Foreword / Paul W. Drake ix

Acknowledgments xv

Introduction / Peter Winn 1

The Pinochet Era / Peter Winn 14

Politics without Policy: The Failure of Social Concentration in Democratic Chile, 1990-2000 / Volker Frank 71

“No Miracle for Us”: The Textile Industry in the Pinochet Era, 1973–1998 / Peter Winn 125

Disciplined Works and Avid Consumers: Neoliberal Policy and the Transformation of Work and Identity Among Chilean Metalworkers / Joel Stillerman 164

Class, Community, and Neoliberalism in Chile: Copper Workers and the Labor Movement During the Military Dictatorship and the Restoration of Democracy / Thomas Miller Klubock 209

More Than Victims: Women Agricultural Workers and Social Change in Rural Chile / Heidi Tinsman 261

Shuckers, Sorters, Headers, and Gutters: Labor in the Fisheries Sector / Rachel Schurman 298

Labor, Land, and Environmental Change in the Forestry Sector in Chile, 1973–1998 / Thomas Miller Klubock 337

Bibliography 389

Contributors 409

Über Autor(innen)

Peter Winn is Professor of History at Tufts University. His books include Americas: The Changing Face of Latin America and the Caribbean and Weavers of Revolution: The Yarur Workers and Chile’s Road to Socialism.