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Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface: Beginning at the End
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Communists, Coal Miners, and Chilean Democracy
Part I Hopes and Promises
1. From Soldiers of Revolution to Citizen Workers
2. Challenging Exclusion: The Birth of the Popular Front in the Coal Region
3. From Tremors to Quakes: The Popular Front Wins the Presidency in 1938
Part II Collaboration and Conflict
4. Workers Contend with the Companies and the Popular Front Government, 1940–1942
5. “With a Bullet in His Heart and the Chilean Flag in His Hand”: Police Shootings in Lota, October 1942
6. “Soldiers of Democracy”: Collaboration and Conflict During World War II
7. General Strikes and States of Siege: Polarization in the Postwar Transition
Part III Rupture and Betrayal
8. “The People Call You Gabriel”: Communist-Backed González Videla Reaches the Presidential Palace
9. The Great Betrayal: González Videla and the Coal Miners’ Strike of October 1947
10. Democracy Under Siege: González Videla’s “Damned Law,” Internment Camps, and Mass Deportations
Conclusion: Coalition Politics in the History of Chilean Democracy
Bibliography
Index
Jody Pavilack is Associate Professor of History at the University of Montana.
“The research in Mining for the Nation is highly original. It fills
a gap in Chilean labor and mining history, both in English and in
Spanish. The book offers a reinterpretation of the Popular Front
experience in Chile and the first serious book-length political
history of the coal region and the role of the Communist Party
there from the 1930s to 1952. Additionally, it serves as a very
readable history of the complex connections among local, regional,
national, and international politics in 1930s–1950s Chile.”—Brian
Loveman,San Diego State University
“In Mining for the Nation, Jody Pavilack tells a complex story with
commendable clarity. The book is well conceptualized, lucidly
analyzed, and persuasively argued, with the support of extensive
research in diverse local, national, and international primary and
secondary sources, both public and private. Pavilack makes good use
of recent literature on citizenship, on states of exception in
Chile, and on the Cold War in Latin America. This is a book that
every scholar of Chile and Latin American labor and the Left will
want to have.”—Peter Winn,Tufts University
“[Jody Pavilack] does an excellent job of summarizing Chilean
politics from the 1920s through the 1940s.”—Michael Monteón The
Americas
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