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The Labor of Extraction in Latin America, Paperback / softback Book

The Labor of Extraction in Latin America Paperback / softback

Edited by Kristin Ciupa, Jeffery R. Webber

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Natural resource extraction and primary commodity export remain persistent features of the Latin American economy.

This edited volume traces the power of labor in extractive sectors in Latin America starting in the 1980s and shows how labor shapes national export sectors, economies, politics, and societies more broadly. Kristin Ciupa and Jeffrey R. Webber bring together a team of international experts who look at labor in several extractive sectors—including oil and gas, mining and agriculture, and migrant labor.

They present a variety of viewpoints and case studies, exploring themes of the strategic organizing potential of extractive workers, the rise of informal labor and its impact on organizing and worker solidarity, and migrant labor-power as extraction.

The book analyzes relationships between workers, extractive companies, states, political parties, national social sectors, and global commodity markets.

The Labor of Extraction in Latin America puts the question of labor organizing to the forefront of discussions on Latin America’s ongoing history of extractive capitalism, its effects on nature, and resistance against it.

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