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

Table of Contents

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

About the Author

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.

Reviews

"Showcasing some of the best current U.S. work on recent Chilean labor and economic history, this collection lays to rest any remaining doubts as to the partial and extremely uneven nature of the 'economic miracle' and its devastating impact on workers. Especially welcome are discussions of neoliberalism's contributions to environmental degradation and its contradictory impact on working-class culture and gender relations."--Florencia Mallon, editor of When a Flower Is Reborn: The Life and Times of a Mapuche Feminist, by Rosa Isolde Reuque Paillalef "The great strength of this volume is that it provides readers with an original, historically based, human-focused analysis of the so-called Chilean miracle."--Brian Loveman, author of Chile: The Legacy of Hispanic Capitalism