Chomsky / Joseph / Rosenberg Linked Labor Histories

New England, Colombia, and the Making of a Global Working Class
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8891-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 412 Seiten

Reihe: American encounters/global interactions

An analysis of migration, labor-management collaboration, and the mobility of capital based on case studies in New England and Colombia.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chomsky, Aviva

Joseph, Gilbert M.

Rosenberg, Emily S.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.