By John Peter Tuman, John T. Morris
This examine seems to be at union responses to the adjustments within the Latin American vehicle within the final 15 years. It considers the influence of the shift in the direction of export construction and local integration, and the influence of political alterations on union reponses.
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This research seems at union responses to the adjustments within the Latin American motor vehicle within the final 15 years. It considers the influence of the shift in the direction of export creation and local integration, and the impression of political adjustments on union reponses.
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What could workers, employers, and the state "think" at a given moment in history, and how and why did these elements change? What, for example, was "women's work," or what could a slave do, and who defined this? Did those disadvantaged by their work situation struggle to change it, or did they accept it as "custom" or "God's will" or the workings of the market? Our definition draws in activities perhaps not always associated with work. What a bureaucrat does is no less work than the labor of a miner, and a housewife works, though she usually receives no wage for it.
These competed, coexisted, and influenced each other. By separating labor systems into individual chapters we are in danger of losing the context. And as we saw, systems of work historically have overlapped each other. On the one hand, different forms of labor routinely have been found together in the same work space. In the 1870s, for example, Brazilian coffee plantations employed chiefly African slaves but were beginning to experiment with European contract workers. Dominant forms change. By 1900 the slaves were gone from these same Brazilian plantations, and few of the free blacks found employment as coffee labor, work which had been taken over by resident Italian colonos.
Chapter 2 shows the routinization of work forms between 1550 and 1750, particularly forced wage labor among the indigenous population and African slavery. Chapter 3 treats the century from 1750 to 1850 by focusing on towns and cities and on work experiences there; it gives special attention to women. Chapter 4 examines the impacts of the nineteenth-century North Atlantic Industrial Revolution on work in Latin America, surveying a period that witnessed more change than any since the conquest. Chapter 5 is about work in Latin America since 1930 and pays particular attention to urban labor, the rise of unions, and worker participation in politics.