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To Be a Worker - Identity and Politics in Peru (Paperback, New edition)
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To Be a Worker - Identity and Politics in Peru (Paperback, New edition)
Series: Latin America in Translation
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A contemporary classic in Peru, where it was first published in
1986, this book explores changes in the political identity and
economic strategies of the Peruvian working class in the 1970s and
1980s. Jorge Parodi uses a case study of Metal Empresa, a large
factory in Lima, to trace the surge and decline of the labor
movement in Peru--and in Latin America more generally--through the
successes and frustrations of the members of a once-powerful union
as they coped with the nation's deteriorating economic situation.
By the early 1970s, Metal Empresa was the site of one of the most
radical and aggressive unions in Peruvian industry. But as the
decade drew to a close, political and economic crises soured the
environment for trade unionism and rendered unions less able to
produce palpable benefits for their members. Through in-depth,
often poignant interviews, including an extensive oral history of
one of the workers, Jesus Zuniga, Parodi shows how workers
desperate to support themselves and their families were
increasingly forced to seek opportunities outside the industrial
sector. In the process, he shows, they began to question their very
identities as workers. |A contemporary classic in Peru, this 1986
book is now available in English. It explores changes in the
political identity and economic strategies of the Peruvian working
class in the 1970s and 1980s. Jorge Parodi uses a case study of
Metal Empresa, a large Lima factory, to trace the surge and decline
of the labor movement in Peru--and in Latin America.
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