“Affirms its contributors’ belief in the ability of working people to overcome setbacks and repression, and quite rightly draws our attention to historical patterns of resistance to underline the importance of workplace struggles in our neoliberal age.” — Labour History Review
“These essays provide a touchstone for evaluating the trajectories and fates of national capitalist experiments in Latin America.” — International Labor and Working Class History
“Demonstrate[s] a profound sensitivity and deep understanding of workers’ day to day concerns, the nuances of their political philosophies, and the goals of their collective actions. No one has done a better job in recapturing the authentic voices of rank and file workers; no one has done more to place workers’ struggles into the larger historical narrative.” — The Americas
“Fascinating reading, . . . essential for all scholars of Latin American workers’ movements.” — Labor History
“An excellent work in all categories, a book for scholars or general students and for anyone interested in the social issues of Latin America.” — CHOICE
“Contributors to this volume have uncovered new information on workers' pivotal political role in the histories of a wide range of Latin American countries.” — Charles Bergquist, University of Washington
“At a time when the Latin American labor movement is at a low ebb, Workers' Control in Latin America offers a rich reminder of the scope, variety, and vicissitudes of Latin American labor during a crucial period of political and economic change: from the onset of the Great Depression to the twilight of the internal development model (desarrollo hacia adentro) in the late 1970s. The book ranges more widely than 'workers' control' in the strict sense; it deals with strikes and shop floor demands, political mobilization, and questions of gender, ideology, social control, and foreign relations. It also embraces eight countries (Mexico, Cuba, Brazil, Bolivia, Guatemala, Chile, Peru, Argentina) and five major industries (mining, textiles, railroads, oil, and sugar). Maps, tables, and illustrations enhance the chapters which, deeply researched and engagingly written, offer a perceptive analysis of the 'lives of labor,' combining grassroots ('subaltern') perspectives with due regard for macro-political and -economic contexts. The book — which successfully blends the work of established scholars with that of a generation of young labor historians — will be essential reading for those interested in comparative labor studies and Latin American social and political history in general. And it stands as a salutary testimony to a diverse labor movement possessed of a rich, often radical, and surely unfinished history.” — Alan Knight, Latin American Centre, St. Antony’s College
